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Spirituality is the practice of or the experience of reconnecting with something outside of and larger than the self; something that is social, natural and/ or supernatural. This is the basic understanding of spirituality I have come to as a scholar who has studied religion and its formal constructions (theology) for the last quarter century.
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Curtis, R. (2014). What is Spirituality?. In: Miri, S.J., Lake, R., Kress, T.M. (eds) Reclaiming the Sane Society. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-607-3_7
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