Spiritual Activism, Pedagogies of the Sacred, and Social Change

Abstract

We, the women here, take a trip back deep into the self, travel to the deep core of our roots to discover and reclaim our colored souls, our rituals, our religion. We reach a spirituality that has been hidden in the hearts of oppressed people under layers of centuries of traditional god-worship. The vision of our spirituality provides us with no trap door solution, no escape hatch tempting us to “transcend” our struggle. We must act in the everydayworld.Words are not enough.Wemust perform visible and public acts that may make us more vulnerable to the very oppressions we are fighting against. But, our vulnerability can be the source of our power—if we use it. anzaldúa, 1981, 195