Introduction : culture, spirituality, and adult learning.- Breaking the silence : defining spirituality in a culturally relevant educational context.- Spirituality, religion, and culture in lived experience : overlaps and separations.- Between the cultural and the universal : themes and variations of spiritual experience.- The great spiral : spiritual development as a process of moving forward and spiraling back.- Gender, culture, and spiritual identity in midlife integration.- The role of spiritual experience in developing a positive cultural identity.- Searching for wholeness : crossing culture, white identity, and spiritual development.- Approaching transformative teaching grounded in spirituality and cultural relevance.- A theory-in-progress of a spiritually grounded, culturally relevant pedagogy : philosophical underpinnings and new directions.- Stories from the field : spirituality and culture in adult higher education classrooms.- The possibilities and challenges of spirituality-grounded, culturally relevant teaching.- Epilogue : final reflections.