Spirituality and Spiritual Care Made Simple: A Suggestive, Normative and Essentialist Approach

Abstract

This paper advances some novel definitions and understandings of spirituality. Spirituality is characterized as the experience and process of engaging with and managing significant relations and attachments with a variety of objects, including material, immaterial, psychological, social, living, dead, conscious, unconscious, and transcendent objects. The genesis of this understanding is outlined. Spiritual care, religious spirituality and religious spiritual care are discussed and described in the light of this definition. Some of the implications of these understandings/definitions are explored.

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