Spiritual

Spiritual is the adjective for spirit (animating force or supernatural entity).

Spiritual may also refer to:

Religion

 * Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
 * Spiritual attack, an attack by Satan and his demons on a Christian
 * Spiritual body, a Christian term for resurrection
 * Spiritual but not religious, a religious categorization
 * Spiritual bypass, a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks"
 * Spiritual communion, a Christian practice of desiring union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
 * Spiritual crisis, a form of identity crisis where an individual experiences drastic changes to their meaning system typically because of a spontaneous spiritual experience
 * Spiritual death, absence of spirituality
 * Spiritual development, the development of the personality towards a religious or spiritual desired better personality
 * Spiritual direction, the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own personal spirituality
 * Spiritual distress, a disturbance in a person's belief system
 * Spiritual ecology, a field in religion and environmentalism
 * Spiritual energy, a form of energy in spirituality and alternative medicine
 * Spiritual evolution, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings evolve
 * Spiritual experience, a subjective experience in religion
 * Spiritual formation, the process and practices by which a person may progress in one's spiritual or religious life or to a movement in Protestantism
 * Spiritual gift, a supernatural power given by God
 * Spiritual healing, a form of alternative medicine
 * Spiritual intelligence, a term used by some philosophers, psychologists, and developmental theorists to indicate spiritual parallels with intelligence quotient and emotional quotient
 * Spiritual Israelite, a member of the Assemblies of Yahweh of Bethel, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
 * Spiritual literature, a genre of literature, in which usually involves the personal spiritual experience of the author
 * Spiritual materialism, a Tibetan Buddhist concept
 * Spiritual naturalism, a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world
 * Spiritual opportunism, the exploitation of spiritual ideas for personal gain, partisan interests or selfish motives
 * Spiritual philosophy, a philosophy pertaining to spirituality
 * Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a spirit may take temporary control of a human body
 * Spiritual practice, a way of exercising spirituality
 * Spiritual psychology, a school of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology
 * Spiritual reading, a practice of reading books and articles about spirituality with the purpose of growing in holiness
 * Spiritual retreat, a place or state dedicated to spirituality
 * Spiritual test, a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man's individual moral character and obedience to his laws
 * Spiritual transformation, a fundamental change in a person's sacred or spiritual life
 * Spiritual warfare, the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces
 * Spiritual warrior, a term used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the ignorance (avidyā)
 * Spirituals, a branch of the 13th-century Franciscans espousing poverty as obligatory
 * Spiritual Franciscans, extreme proponents of the rule of Saint Francis of Assisi, especially with regard to poverty
 * Lords Spiritual, the clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
 * Spiritual Baptists, a syncretic Afro-American religion that combines elements of traditional African religion with Christianity
 * Spiritual Christianity, a Christian denomination in Russia
 * Spiritual church movement, a group of Spiritualist churches and Spiritualist denominations

Music

 * Spirituals, a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans
 * Spirituals (David Murray album), 1988
 * Spirituals (Paul Robeson album), 1946
 * Spirituals (Santigold album), 2022
 * The Spiritual, a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
 * "Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry from her 2013 album Prism

Other uses

 * Spiritual successor, a follow-up work that does not directly continue the canon of its predecessor