"To claim the spiritual within the academy is blasphemous" notes Hurtado (2003) in response to Dillard's (2003a) call for research representation more in keeping with the lives of African-American women researchers. "[I]t undermines the claims of 'scientific' objectivity and leaves us bereft of method" (Hurtado, 2003, p. 218).
Dillard's (2003a) call