Spiritual

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 album Prism

See also

• Spirit (disambiguation)
• Spirit world (disambiguation)
• Spiritualism (disambiguation)