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Dimensions of Diversity

What is Religion? What is Spirituality?

Religion
Definition from the Open Education Sociology Dictionary:

1. (noun) A personal or institutional system of beliefs, practices, and values relating to the cosmos and supernatural.

 
Spirituality
Definition from the American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology:

1. a concern for or sensitivity to things of the spirit or soul, especially as opposed to materialistic concerns.

2. more specifically, a concern for God and a sensitivity to religious experience, which may include the practice of a particular religion but may also exist without such practice.

3. the fact or state of being incorporeal.

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