This collection of articles explores how a wide range of academics-- diverse in location, rank and discipline-- understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contributors also analyze the culture of academia and its challenges to the spiritual development of those involved. Twenty chapter authors--from a variety of faith traditions--discuss the ways in which their own beliefs have affected their journeys through higher education. By using an autoethnographic, self-analytical lens, this collection shows how various spiritualities have influenced how higher education is understood, taught and performed. The book will stimulate debate and conversations on a topic traditionally ignored in academia
This collection investigates, through an autoethnographic lens, the roles and intersections of self, spirituality and academia.
"Two important currents of thought wend their way through the pages of this captivating book. The first is the fresh movement of spirituality that is bound neither by systematic religion nor by positivist modernity. The second is the analysis of socio-cultural meanings of self (i.e. the situated self). Together, they "inspirit" the reader to apply analyses similar to those of the authors. Reading this book caused me to stretch."
- David R. Black, President, Eastern University
"Scholar/teacher/activists representing a diversity of faith traditions employ the personal revelatory power of autoethnography to document their life journeys and milestones. I was in awe about how these authors blended personal faith and professional commitment to boldly interrogate and transform not only their own belief systems, but also institutional hegemonic structures. The result is a profound analysis of what it means to be intellectually, spirlÓÏ
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