Curriculum (2013 revision) in Indonesia 'ordered' teachers to assess students' spiritual attitude. But in the guidebook seems to lead to the assessment of religious attitudes (religious practice). While my opinion is different religiosity and spirituality. So what exactly is spiritual?
Quite often religion takes the approach of fearing God. Religion is often concerned with sin, guilt and a concept of a God who punishes. The spiritual approach to God is through the path of love. This is a love where there is no judgement – only acceptance. Spirituality feels so-called sins are just ignorance based on a false belief of who we are.
These might be useful :
- http://wellnesscenter.pbworks.com/f/Spiritual%20Assessment%20Inventory.pdf
- https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/487308/1/68.pdf
Also the attached link about religion and spiritual attitude in life may be helpful with regard to the question.
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_102.html
YOUR MENTAL ATTITUDE to life is one of the key elements of your personality makeup. It is your default way of viewing reality, the seven options being: Realism, Spiritualism, Idealism, Pragmatism, Cynicism, Skepticism and Stoicism.
http://personalityspirituality.net/articles/the-michael-teachings/attitude-your-way-of-viewing-life/
Spirituality is monoism while religiosity is dualism. In earlier one can not differentiate from process while in later a person is seen as doing a process separately.
Dear Roshan Sutar. Until recently, my understanding of the spiritual is not limited to the aspect of religion, even people without any religion (ie atheist) may have spirituality. Conversely, sometimes even religious people do not have spirituality. What do you mean like this? Thank you, your response.
Yes, it is perhaps helpful to think in terms of worldview since this integrates spirituality and practice. Of course, spirituality then needs definition. This article may be helpful.
http://www.understandingworldreligions.com/books_pdf_worldviews/Olthuis_On_Worldviews.pdf
Agree with you Asmuni. Spiritual attitude arises out of being conscious about every process of life... while religious attitude follows unlimited ritiualiatic processes which infact mask the unconscious fears and curiosity. Also in order to measure how much spiritual somebody is a difficult task and one has to attain certain levels of self consciousness to come out with a questinnaire about spiritual attitude...though it can be troed with limitations. Thanks Asumi.
Spirituality attitude covers the reflection on our individual personality . As it has an basic end of our inner growth & development which relates to aspect of religion . Person with an spiritual attitude has a reflection on his behavior for all the action of his life line with every strata of people so that he may remain all the time calm ,quite , with comforts in his approach .
This is my personal opinion
Different researchers and theorists use entirely different definitions of spirituality... it is thus a rather amorphous concept. Before we can talk about anything we really need to clearly know what it is that we are trying to talk about. A sense of this debate/definitional disputation can actually be found under spirituality on wikipedia.
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Thanks to all who have provided insight into the spiritual attitude for me.
Spirituality seems broader and more personal than religion. I am not as religious as I once was, but I consider myself more spiritual. I consider all of life and everything I do to be spiritual - not just what happens at church or while participation in a particular religious tradition or practice,
To me, the only worthwhile endeavor is seeking the truth.
Starting out this journey as a materialist, I came to the final realization that the truth lies in spirituality, rather than in materialism. People and animals are spiritual beings; the material world is a shared dream.
It depends on the context that you are looking for. In Christian understanding usually spirituality is defined by the scriptures. However it is different from religious attitude because you have to be filiated to a certain denomination or religion and they define the religious attitude to follow.
Spirituality in the Swantson Topical Bible says "Described as the great and enduring good, Luke 10:42; as love and devotion to God, Deut. 6:5; Josh. 22:5; 1 Kin. 8:23; Psa. 1:2; 51:6. Brings peace, Isa. 26:3; Jer. 33:6; Rom. 8:6; 14:17; indifference to worldly good, 1 Cor. 7:29–31; Col. 3:1–3; thirst for heavenly blessings, Matt. 5:6; John 6:27. Is produced by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, John 14:16, 17; Rom. 8:4" [1}
Swanson, J., & Nave, O. (1994). New Nave’s Topical Bible. Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems.
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