what is the difference -religion and spiritual?

Answer 1

Spirituality is the next evolution of religion

A religious person may be fanatic, arrogant or ignorant, but a spiritual person sees all unverse as his own self

Religion is like a canal where water flows in fixed routes..predecided if it will reach our tap, or fields or lake

But spirituality is free flowing mountain river....finding its own ways....dancing and singing...rushing towards the Great Ocean

Answer 2

Since u already have lots of answers with proper & detailed definition abt religion & spiritual, I'll rather write my viewpoint on it. Maybe I get successful in adding a new dimension to it .
To start with, I feel Spirituality is a superset & religion a subset of it. Both are for belief in the supreme power but religion gets confided to different groups of people having the same belief. The belief might differ from one group to another but within the group they follow the same ideology like we have different religions, each with its own set of belief & practices but they all ultimately believe in the supreme power hence spiritual .
I also feel that people who are more of spiritual are the ones who have understood the real meaning of religion and have no space for fanaticism in it .

Answer 3

Funny, I asked this a few months ago. But I think I can answer now. Religion is a set of rules from how to behave to how to think. Spirituality is a feeling.

Answer 4

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Although religion and spirituality are sometimes used interchangeably, they really indicate two different aspects of the human experience. You might say that spirituality is the mystical face of religion.


Spirituality is the wellspring of divinity that pulsates, dances, and flows as the source and essence of every soul. Spirituality relates more to your personal search, to finding greater meaning and purpose in your existence. Some elements of spirituality include:
Looking beyond outer appearances to the deeper significance and soul of everything

Love and respect for God

Love and respect for yourself

Love and respect for everybody
Religion is most often used to describe an organized group or culture that has generally been sparked by the fire of a spiritual or divine soul. Religions usually act with a mission and intention of presenting specific teachings and doctrines while nurturing and propagating a particular way of life.

Religion and spirituality can blend together beautifully!
Different religions can look quite unlike one another. Some participants bow to colorful statues of deities, others listen to inspired sermons while dressed in their Sunday finery, and yet others set out their prayer rugs five times a day to bow their heads to the ground. Regardless of these different outer manifestations of worship, the kernel of religion is spirituality, and the essence of spirituality is God.

One goal of this book is to focus on essential spiritual teachings that resonate with most religions -- a formidable and challenging objective, to be sure. Yet, in the depths of personal contemplation, I have seen that spirituality is intertwined with religion, politics, science, philosophy, and art on subtle levels that may not be outwardly obvious. The ultimate goals of these endeavors is some version of knowing greater truth and living better lives -- what Kahlil Gibran referred to as being "in quest of the uttermost."

Spirituality is:

Beyond all religions yet containing all religions

Beyond all science yet containing all science
Beyond all philosophy yet containing all philosophy

'-)

Answer 5

Maybe one is some thing set from an other,
and one is a something you feel is?
That's Not Religions but it is Spiritual.

Answer 6

Spirituality is a set of personal beliefs defined solely by one's personality, morals and values. Religion is a set of beliefs and standards, implemented by a small portion of the populous and enforced upon the larger portion of the population of a certain group in order to maintain social standings. Religion demands the sacrifice of individuality whereas spirituality is individual.

Answer 7

Religious people believe in an organized, thought out religion. They usually have a general set of rules that they follow, group meeting such as church, and other such things.

Spritualism is not organized, and there are no groups for you to go to. Being spiritual is something personal, based on beliefs and morals that are unique only to you as an individual. It is being in tune with yourself, and your personal beliefs.

You are told what you know about your religion. You cannot be told what you know about your spirituality.

Answer 8

About $20,000 a year with good book deals.

Spirituality is contemplation of the questions about man's non-material being.
Religion is a social movement that has an answer or the answer for the questions. No contemplation required.
Spirituality is about seeking. You may never answer any of the important questions, but it is the contemplation that helps you further your understanding about the nature of the primate soul.
Religion is about the adherance to a dogma or doctrine. They have the answers and all you have to do is take someone else's word for how your inner being really is.

Answer 9

Religion is organized by man to promote spirituality. Well, at least some times. Sometimes religion just promotes the man and his greed.

Answer 10

Religion- Human body and it's attachments centric (All these things are perishable). So we should work to keep human body active only for the purpose of attaining our (soul's) eternal aim. Human body is the instrument without which this can not be achieved.

Spiritual- Human soul centric ( Its the soul asking from the human body its food, so that its eternal quest of searching for happiness is quneched. )