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Understanding Women's Spirituality in the Context of a Progressive Campus-Based Catholic Community

The college experience provides students with an opportunity to explore and adopt new ways of perceiving themselves and the world around them. During these years, the spiritual commitments that students bring with them to college may be challenged by diverse curricular and peer influences,1 but nurtured by religious communities on campus.2 For college women in particular, spiritual meaning-making is complicated by biases that undermine female perspectives across numerous religious traditions. In developing a spiritual identity, women from orthodox religions face potential conflicts in terms of incorporating the beliefs instilled in them during childhood with ideologies (such as feminism) that they encounter after leaving home.3 The intent of this study was to present an in-depth perspective on the spiritual identities of Catholic women pursuing postsecondary education. Using qualitative data with an emphasis on personal narrative, my study explored how the many facets of the college experience, particularly involvement in a socially-progressive Catholic organization on campus, interacted with childhood religious beliefs and experiences to impact women’s faith trajectories and spiritual wholeness.