Stephen Simon, founder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle offers:
While religious and spiritual have much more in common than they are different, most mainstream media imply that they are synonymous, and they are not.
Religion reflects the teachings of particular organized religions that commonly present specific rules, regulations, and rituals that must be followed in order to experience a connection with the Divine which is usually identified as male and outside of humanity.
Spirituality entails a more personal, inner-directed, and individual experience of the Divine, which is represented as an integral aspect of our own humanity.
From Wikipedia:
Spirituality is, in a narrow sense, a concern with matters of the spirit, however that may be defined; but it is also a wide term with many available readings. It may include belief in supernatural powers, as in religion, but the emphasis is on personal experience. It may be an expression for life perceived as higher, more complex or more integrated with one's worldview, as contrasted with the merely sensual.
Spirituality is also commonly understood to be a belief in God, Spirit or divinity without necessarily being involved in a religion. A person can be spiritual without being religious. It is about one's personal connection with the divine.
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