Spirituality

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A definition from the dictionary...
spiritual adj
1 belonging, referring or relating to the spirit or soul rather than to the body or to physical things.
2 belonging, referring or relating to religion; sacred, holy or divine o a spiritual leader.
3 a belonging, referring or relating to, or arising from, the mind or intellect;
b highly refined in thought, feelings, etc.
4 belonging, referring or relating to spirits, ghosts, etc o the spiritual world.
noun (also Negro spiritual) a type of religious song that is characterized by voice harmonies and which developed from the communal singing traditions of Black people in the southern states of the USA.
spirituality noun.


From definition 2, we can see that spirituality can be related to religion, but that doesn't mean that religion and spirituality are the same concept.

religion noun
1 a belief in, or the worship of, a god or gods.
2 a particular system of belief or worship, such as Christianity or Judaism.
3 colloq anything to which one is totally devoted and which rules one's life / mountaineering is his religion.
4 the monastic way of life.
[12c: French, from Latin religio bond or obligation, etc, from ligare to bind.]

Interesting to see that "re-ligion" like "ob-ligation" are both ideas about being bound to something. ( a set of ideas, dogma, a church etc...)