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title: "7 Facts about spirituality"  
description: "spirituality is becoming increasingly popular and how has the term evolved and used today from its Christian roots"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-10  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1806/7-facts-about-spirituality  
category: "spiritual"  
tags: ["Spiritual", "spirituality", "facts", "spiritual facts", "spirituality facts", "unknown facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 7 Facts about spirituality

![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/df90f4fe-7e3d-4fe9-8ed5-500dabdb5375.jpeg) ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/999b61d3-d09f-4e1e-985b-61a38d62c2a7.jpeg) Spirituality’ stands for lifestyles and practices that embody a vision of human existence and how the human spirit is to achieve its full potential. ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/c56bab4b-a4cf-4c0d-bb54-de5d12ec2352.jpeg) During the last quarter of the twentieth century, the concept of spirituality moved well beyond its origins in Christianity and even beyond religion ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/6c3dea5a-e6d4-4ff6-80d1-6a1212a26da0.jpeg) Spirituality that appears in non-religious contexts is often called ‘secular spirituality’. ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/5bf660e1-cdb4-4a84-a466-2b4342ead2d2.jpeg) The term’ secular saint’ refers to someone who, irrespective of religion, is respected either for their selfless contribution or their inspiring life ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/1deb963c-398e-4481-b788-0d032262afd2.jpeg) One can identify four broad ‘types’ of spirituality: ascetical, mystical, active-practical, and prophetic-practical. ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/c11ea595-818a-42cb-b89b-c0eafbc3894e.jpeg) The different types foster self-transcendence and transformation via a movement away from what they see as ‘inauthentic’ towards the authentic. ![7 Facts about spirituality](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/4705c63f-0a26-4ce1-921a-554e730108de/images/b9b2f171-8d2a-4375-94e2-80ab9ba14d1a.jpeg) Spiritual practices are regular, disciplined activities related to spiritual development.

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