Spiritual and Intellectual Formation for Womanist Scholars

Spiritual Formation in Academic Life

The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership invites students, seminarians, doctoral candidates, and theological educators to complete this brief survey. Your responses will help us understand how your intellectual formation and your spiritual formation are — or are not — connected, and what kinds of settings and practices would help integrate both. This survey is confidential and will take approximately 10–15 minutes.

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* 1. How would you describe the relationship between your academic study of theology/womanist thought and your personal spiritual formation? Select all that apply.

My scholarly work and spiritual life are deeply connected and mutually nourishing

My intellectual formation often leaves little room for personal spiritual practice

I study practices I wish I could engage more deeply myself

My program does not provide structured settings for spiritual formation

I feel I need to compartmentalize my spirituality from my academic work

I am still figuring out what my own spiritual practice looks like

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Which Christian practices do you currently engage in, even occasionally? Select all that apply.

Personal prayer or meditation

Scripture reading with womanist or Black theological lenses

Journaling or reflective writing

Communal worship (church, chapel, prayer group)

Embodied practices (movement, dance, yoga, breath work)

Faith-sharing or testimony

Lament practices

Retreats or intentional withdrawal

Creative expression (music, art, writing) as spiritual practice

Service or justice work as spiritual practice

Other (please specify)

Spiritual and Intellectual Formation for Womanist Scholars

Spiritual Formation in Academic Life

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* 1. How would you describe the relationship between your academic study of theology/womanist thought and your personal spiritual formation? Select all that apply.

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* 2. Which Christian practices do you currently engage in, even occasionally? Select all that apply.

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* 3. As a womanist scholar or emerging leader, what spiritual questions are most alive for you right now?