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Spiritual is the adjective for spirit.

Spiritual may also refer to:

Religion

* Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
**Spiritual attack, an attack by Satan and his demons on a Christian
** Spiritual body, a Christian term for resurrection
**Spiritual but not religious, a religious categorization
** Spiritual bypass, a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks"
** Spiritual communion, 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, absence of spirituality
**Spiritual development, the development of the personality towards a religious or spiritual desired better personality
** Spiritual direction, 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, a disturbance in a person's belief system
**Spiritual ecology, a field in religion and environmentalism
**Spiritual energy, a form of energy in spirituality and alternative medicine
** Spiritual enlightenment, 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 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, the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces
** Spiritual warrior, 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 clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
* Spiritual Baptists, a syncretic Afro-American religion that combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity
*Spiritual Christianity, a Christian denomination in Russia
* Spiritual church movement, a group of Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations

Music

* Spiritual (music), an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text
*'' The Spiritual'', a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
*"Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry from her 2013 album ''Prism''

Other uses

* Spiritual successor, a follow-up work that does not directly continue the canon of its predecessor

See also

* Spirit (disambiguation)
* Spirit world (disambiguation)
* Spiritualism (disambiguation)

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