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Spiritual is the adjective for spirit. Spiritual may also refer to:


Religion

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Spirituality The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...
, a concern with matters of the spirit **
Spiritual attack Spirit possession is an unusual or altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors purportedly caused by the control of a human body by spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods. The concept of spirit possession exists in many cultures and re ...
, an attack by Satan and his demons on a Christian **
Spiritual body In Christianity, the apostle Paul introduced the concept of the spiritual body (Koine Greek: ) in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 15:44), describing the resurrected body as "spiritual" () in contrast to the natural () body: Christian teaching ...
, a Christian term for resurrection **
Spiritual but not religious "Spiritual but not religious" (SBNR), also known as "spiritual but not affiliated" (SBNA), is a popular phrase and initialism used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that does not regard organized religion as the sole or most valuable ...
, a religious categorization **
Spiritual bypass Spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". The term was introduced in the mid 1980s ...
, a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks" **
Spiritual communion Spiritual communion is a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. It is used as a preparation for Mass and by individuals who cannot receive holy communion. This practice is well established in Lutheran, Anglican, ...
, a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist ** Spiritual crisis, a form of identity crisis where an individual experiences drastic changes to their meaning system typically because of a spontaneous spiritual experience **
Spiritual death The concept of spiritual death has varying meanings in various uses and contexts. Buddhism Buddhadasa called ''duḥkha'' spiritual death. Sangharakshita uses the term "spiritual death" to describe one stage in a system of meditation, where insi ...
, absence of spirituality ** Spiritual development, the development of the personality towards a religious or spiritual desired better personality **
Spiritual direction Spiritual direction is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their personal spirituality. The person seeking direction shares stories of their encounters of the div ...
, the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own personal spirituality **
Spiritual distress Spiritual distress is a disturbance in a person's belief system. As an approved nursing diagnosis, spiritual distress is defined as "a disruption in the life principle that pervades a person's entire being and that integrates and transcends one's ...
, a disturbance in a person's belief system **
Spiritual ecology Spiritual ecology is an emerging field in religion, conservation, and academia recognizing that there is a spiritual facet to all issues related to conservation, environmentalism, and earth stewardship. Proponents of Spiritual Ecology assert a nee ...
, a field in religion and environmentalism ** Spiritual energy, a form of energy in spirituality and alternative medicine **
Spiritual enlightenment Used in a religious sense, enlightenment translates several Glossary of Buddhism, Buddhist terms and concepts, most notably ''bodhi'', ''kensho,'' and ''satori''. Related terms from Asian religions are ''kaivalya'' and ''moksha'' (liberation) in ...
, the "full comprehension of a situation" ** Spiritual evolution, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings evolve ** Spiritual experience, a subjective experience in religion ** Spiritual formation, the process and practices by which a person may progress in one's spiritual or religious life or to a movement in Protestantism ** Spiritual gift, a supernatural power given by God ** Spiritual healing, a form of alternative medicine ** Spiritual intelligence, a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with intelligence quotient and emotional quotient ** Spiritual literature, a genre of literature, in which usually involves the personal spiritual experience of the author ** Spiritual materialism, a Tibetan Buddhist concept ** Spiritual naturalism, a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world ** Spiritual opportunism, the exploitation of spiritual ideas for personal gain, partisan interests or selfish motives ** Spiritual philosophy, a philosophy pertaining to spirituality ** Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a spirit may take temporary control of a human body ** Spiritual practice, a way of exercising spirituality ** Spiritual psychology, a school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology ** Spiritual reading, a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness ** Spiritual retreat, a place or state dedicated to spirituality **
Spiritual test A spiritual test, according to several religious traditions, is a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man's individual moral character and obedience to His laws. Spiritual tests assess one's virtue in many aspects of everyday life, indiv ...
, a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man's individual moral character and obedience to his laws ** Spiritual transformation, a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life **
Spiritual warfare Spiritual warfare is the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces. It is based on the biblical belief in evil spirits, or demons, that are said to intervene in human affairs in various ways. Although spiritua ...
, the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces **
Spiritual warrior The term spiritual warrior is used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the universal enemy: self-ignorance ( avidya), the ultimate source of suffering according to Buddhist philosophy. Different from other paths, which focus on individual sal ...
, a term used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the ignorance (avidyā) *Spirituals, a branch of the 13th-century Franciscans espousing poverty as obligatory ** Spiritual Franciscans, extreme proponents of the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty *
Lords Spiritual The Lords Spiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who serve in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. 26 out of the 42 diocesan bishops and archbishops of the Church of England serve as Lords Spiritual (not counting retired archbi ...
, the clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords *
Spiritual Baptists The Spiritual Baptist faith is a Christian religion created by enslaved Africans in the plantations they came to in the former British West Indies countries predominantly in the islands of a Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and the ...
, a syncretic Afro-American religion that combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity * Spiritual Christianity, a Christian denomination in Russia *
Spiritual church movement The spiritual church movement is an informal name for a group of loosely allied and also independent Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations that have in common that they have been historically based in the African American communit ...
, a group of Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations


Music

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Spiritual (music) Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with Black Americans, which merged sub-Saharan African cultural heritage with the ex ...
, an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text *''
The Spiritual ''The Spiritual'' is an album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in 1969 for the Freedom label as the same sessions that produced ''Tutankhamun''.
'', a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago *"Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry from her 2013 album '' Prism''


Other uses

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Spiritual successor A spiritual successor (sometimes called a spiritual sequel) is a product or fictional work that is similar to, or directly inspired by, another previous work, but (unlike a traditional prequel or sequel) does not explicitly continue the product lin ...
, a follow-up work that does not directly continue the canon of its predecessor


See also

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Spirit (disambiguation) Spirit or spirits may refer to: Liquor and other volatile liquids * Spirits, a.k.a. liquor, distilled alcoholic drinks * Spirit or tincture, an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol * Volatile (especially flammable) liquids, ...
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Spirit world (disambiguation) Spirit world may refer to: In religion *Spirit world (Spiritualism) *Spirit world (Latter Day Saints) *Goloka, or Vaikuntha, often referred to as the "spiritual sky" or "spiritual world" in Hare Krishna contexts *Guinee, a spirit world in Vodou * D ...
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Spiritualism (disambiguation) Spiritualism is a religion postulating the belief that spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Spiritualism may also refer to: Religion * Spiritism, a similar reli ...
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