32 Facts About Secular spirituality

Secular spirituality is the adherence to a spiritual philosophy without adherence to a religion.

Secular spirituality emphasizes the personal growth and inner peace of the individual, rather than a relationship with the divine.

Secular spirituality is made up of the search for meaning outside of a religious institution; it considers one's relationship with the self, others, nature, and whatever else one considers to be the ultimate.

Peter Van der Veer argues an important aspect of secular spirituality is its promotion of community, creating solidarity through shared universal truth.

Instances of secular spirituality are mediated differently, as instances of awe can be encouraged through a diversity of unique environments and situations.

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Secular spirituality emphasizes humanistic qualities such as love, compassion, patience, forgiveness, responsibility, harmony and a concern for others.

Du Toit defines "secular spirituality" as a contemporary phenomenon of spirituality experienced in spheres separate from structured, institutionalized religion.

The concept of Secular spirituality means something different in the current techno-scientific world than it did in a world of phantoms, magic, gods, and demons, in which humans believed themselves to be at the mercy of forces they could not control.

Secular spirituality is not a new religion, but rather the potential for all experiences to assume a spiritual quality, not limited to any one religious or transcendent realm.

In saying this, though Du Toit connects secularism to individualism, Du Toit maintains that secular spirituality is inherently communal, as he argues that while instances of awe can be experienced individually, they ultimately contribute to the collective – as these instances of awe can motivate people to influence others and nature.

Peter Van der Veer suggests secular spirituality began with the emphasis on forming group identities, both national and political, and the need for these communities to share a spiritual identity.

For Van der Veer, secular spirituality arose in communities through the simultaneous rise of secularism and spirituality, as well as their interaction in the context of nineteenth century globalization.

Secular spirituality identifies spirituality, the secular, and religion as three interacting but independent concepts that create frameworks for different systems of belief.

Van der Veer suggests the phenomenon of secular spirituality develops as many different expressions of belief because of the inconsistent integration of spirituality into secular society within social, market and political spaces.

Secular spirituality reflects individualism and self-reflexivity through forming group identities outside of a modern geopolitical context.

Secular spirituality believes that the sacred functions both within and outside of a theological context through the beliefs of individual persons.

Secular spirituality argues that the concept of religion should not be conflated with the concept of the sacred, and that the concept of the secular should not be conflated with the concept of the profane.

For many religious people, technology can be seen as an alienating force – "the encapsulation of human rationality" – that competes with religion and Secular spirituality as opposed to mediating or facilitating religion and Secular spirituality.

Secular spirituality is a phenomenon that recognizes the link between technology and spirituality, as opposed to viewing technology as in competition with spirituality.

Secular spirituality advocates allowing students to investigate how individuals and cultures have addressed spiritual concerns and issues.

Public schools in Canada generally exclude the spiritual or transcendent dimension of human life from their explanation of religion and have thus bought into a brand of secularism that has excluded spirituality, giving students the false impression that spirituality has never been an important part of the human experience.

Crawford argues that the deflection of students' questions about religion or Secular spirituality is commonplace and contributes to misunderstandings and ignorance about religion and Secular spirituality.

In Fischer's own experience, the sacred power of Secular spirituality has deepened and extended her spiritual practices, such as meditation or deep reflection to maintain strong mental wellbeing.

Chicano Secular spirituality is a form of Mexicanism; a nationalist spiritual ideology that developed in Mexico and the Southern United States in the 1960s as a response to political and cultural mistreatment by both Mexican and American law.

Chicano spirituality uses a combination of rituals from the Mexica, popular Catholic traditions, and secular Mexican traditions to forge an identity for the Chicano people.

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The idea of the Aztlan homeland is imaginary, but supported by factors in pre-Hispanic history, allows the Chicano to more firmly stake their position to be recognized as a form of secular spirituality occurring in communities in both Mexico and the United States that desires political recognition of their minority identity as a tool to engage in contemporary society.

Chicano Secular spirituality is a combination of American and Mexican encounters with modern politics of human rights.

Gandhi's national Secular spirituality relied on the entire population of India presenting themselves as a united front against colonialism.

Gandhi felt that separating them from the political whole was a "vivisection" of Indian National Secular spirituality as formed a shared ideology for fight for Indian Nationalism.

Secular spirituality believed that Indian National Spirituality would allow the East to be an example to the West in promoting national communities tied by belief.

Secular spirituality saw the lack of mobility between castes and the systematic oppression of the Dalits, the lowest caste in the Hindu system, as necessitating a political separation from their oppressors in a contemporary Indian legal situation.

Secular spirituality hoped that converting the Dalit population to a religion that lacked a caste system would help to create a situation in which they had equal human rights in India as a minority group.