The Sacred Core: What My Students Taught Me About Religion and Spirituality Psychology of Religion The Sacred Core: Rethinking Religion vs. Spirituality A classroom argument over the "spiritual but not religious" turned into a deeper question: are religion and spirituality two things, or one search wearing different clothes? VC Dr. Victor Counted The Flourishing Journal It started, as the best class discussions often do, with a disagreement. This healthy disagreement, I must say, has been ongoing throughout the semester. This time, we were working through the standard definitions in my psychology of religion course, the ones every textbook offers: religion as the institutional and doctrinal thing, and spirituality as the…