Description
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
Table of Contents
Autoethnography as Method for Spirituality Research in the Academy; Spirituality and Personhood; “Now You See Her, Now You Don't” 1 : The Integration of Mothering, Spirituality, and Work; Finding Calcutta: Confronting the Secular Imperative; By a Crooked Star: Developing Spirituality Within the Context of a Faith-Based Institution; Spirituality and Professional Collegiality: Esprit de “Core”; Spirituality and Teaching; Helping College Students Discover Meaning Through Spirituality; What's God Got to Do with it? Teaching Personal Narrative at a Faith-Based Institution; Pedagogy and Spirituality in Higher Education: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities; Spiritual Introspection and Praxis in Teaching and Assessment; Spirituality, Scholarship, and Outreach; Studying Spirituality and Leadership: A Personal Journey; Listening to the Spiritual Voices of Others in Research; Teaching Religious Tolerance and Understanding; Weaving Activism, Faith, and Scholarship
