My friend and I have been studying traditional Zulu spirituality together for two years, but now that we're both white academics, we're questioning whether our scholarly approach is actually preventing us from experiencing any real spiritual connection to these teachings. We're caught between genuine reverence and the uncomfortable reality that we might be perpetuating the very academic colonialism we thought we were avoiding.
More people experience this than they realize.
Companions face the uncomfortable recognition that their approach to spiritual learning may be reproducing the extraction they sought to transcend.
“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — Africa?”
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