What is spirituality and what makes for different spiritualities? The word "spirituality" is relatively new within the English-speaking world, at least in terms of how it is being used today. Prior to the 1960s you would have found very few books in English with the word "spirituality" in their title, though that wasn't true for the French-speaking world.
A half-century ago spiritual writers within Catholicism wrote about the subject but mostly under titles such as The Spiritual Life or Ascetical Theology, or in the form of devotional treatises. Protestants and Evangelicals, for the most part, identified spirituality with Catholic devotions and steered clear of the word.
