Proposal abstract :
This grant seeks to decolonize spiritual formation both individual and collective settings. The current research on spiritual formation and its pedagogies is limited to evangelical and Catholic ideas of spiritual practices, Christian living, and catechism. The current body of literature assumes that there is a simple roadmap to enriching one’s spiritual life and that participants of spiritual formation all belong to the same “church,” the colonial Christian church, which has a common understanding of these practices. The focus for this grant will be decolonial pedagogies, classroom strategies, and methods that are both broad and specific so that seminarians can adapt them in their own contexts. Thirty people who identify as spiritual will participate in small groups to discuss their spiritual journey including practices and formative markers that shaped them. The analyses of these group conversations will inform decolonial spiritual formation.