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Religion's cooler cousin who moved out but still borrows the car.
means The pursuit of meaning, connection, or transcendence beyond the material, usually without the overhead of organized dogma.
from From Latin 'spiritualis' (of breath, spirit), from 'spiritus' — breath, which is also the root of 'inspire' and 'expire.' Early Christian writers used it to distinguish the soul's concerns from fleshly ones. The modern, looser sense — spirituality as personal practice rather than church membership — is largely a 20th-century shift, as the word drifted away from institutional religion toward individual experience.
- word surge
- usage spiked dramatically in English after the 1960s
- self-ID stat
- millions now call themselves spiritual but not religious
- ancient root
- predates organized religion as a concept by millennia
- market size
- wellness-spirituality industry worth tens of billions yearly