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Spiritual innovation is the creative, transformative, and subversive ways that Black women engage with and reinterpret spiritual practices, beliefs, and traditions that affirm their dignity, resist oppression, and cultivate communal and personal liberation.

For me, spiritual innovation is building on a practice or a belief that comes from an historic religious tradition and modifying its application in a way that is consistent with current sociological realities.

This initiative at Bryn Mawr College convenes scholars, religious leaders, journalists, students, and educators to explore and map the evolving spiritual infrastructure of the future—including changes in congregational closures, spiritual innovation, and religious leadership—through research, public engagement, and professional development.