spiritualization
- noun
- /ˌspɪrɪtʃuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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espiritualización
- The spiritualization of politics that Zarathustra would instigate stems from the contention that the soul of man is fundamentally a cultural and historical—that is to say, a civilizational—creation.
Examples
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This also resulted in the spiritualization of Jerusalem, in which "Jerusalem was a spiritual entity which the Christian could experience anywhere."
Academic text (2018) -
The secularization of society has played an important role in detaching humans from specific traditional religious pursuits, thus laying the groundwork for the inherent spiritualization of the world.
Academic text (1995) -
Here is the basis for the Gnostic spiritualization that sees man as spirit fallen into the shadow world of the material.
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"And Nietzsche held that the spiritualization of sensuality is called love," Captain Williams said.
Fiction book (1995) -
Such a reading need not clash, though, with one that interprets the spiritualization of the cow as a projection of the speaker's surface self.
Academic text (1997) -
Modern political thought, like that of Sklar and Nozick, from two opposite directions, shows the imprint of one of the deepest currents within modernity: the political aspect of what I call the spiritualization of fear.
Academic text (1998) -
For despite the inroads that the spiritualization of sacrifice had already made and was continuing to make in Greek religious philosophy, in late biblical Judaism, and in early Christianity, Christian antiquity was still a time when sacrifice, in the traditional history-of-religions sense of that word, that is, an external cultic act involving the destruction of a victim, was generally taken for granted as an essential part of religion.
Academic text (2007) -
Thus we can observe the process of spiritualization of the meaning of Jerusalem, which resulted in the "... oscillation between the two dimensions of Jerusalem... celestial or terrestrial, eternal or temporal, transcendent or imminent."
Academic text (1996) -
The spiritualization of everyday life can help people find deeper meaning in their routines.
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Through art and meditation, the spiritualization of the mundane can inspire a sense of connection to something greater.
Synonyms
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To make a place or object sacred in a special religious ceremony
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A religious ceremony that makes something holy for use in worship
To make something holy or give it religious meaning
To make a religious building or object holy again with a ceremony
Antonyms
How Spiritual
- Formal
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- Formal
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
spiritualization = spiritualize (transparent) = spirit + ual + ize + ation
A standard nominalization from the verb 'spiritualize' using -ation; the meaning directly denotes the process or act of making something spiritual.
Etymology
The word spiritualization comes from spirit, a word that originally meant 'breath' in Latin, as in inspire which means 'to breathe into'. The parts -ize ('to make') and -ation ('the act of') show that spiritualization is the act of making something more 'spiritual' or giving it 'spirit'.