Spirituality – what is it?
Philip Barron explores a mysterious word
Spirituality has become something of a vogue word these days, but what does it mean? My Oxford dictionary only lists the word as a derivative of ‘spirit’, which comes from the Latin spiritus meaning ‘wind’ or ‘breath’. This term is defined differently by monotheists, polytheists, Native Americans, secularists and so on.
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