id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8104 Spiritual but not religious - Wikipedia .html text/html 3136 378 53 The specific expression was used in several scholarly works, including an anthropological paper in 1960[6] and in Zinnbauer et al.'s seminal paper "Religiousness and Spirituality: Unfuzzying the Fuzzy".[7] SBNR as a movement in America was delineated by author Sven Erlandson in his 2000 book Spiritual but not Religious.[8][9][10] The phenomenon possibly started to emerge as a result of a new Romantic movement that began in the 1960s, whereas the relationship between the two has been remotely linked to William James' definition of religious experience, which he defines as the "feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."[11] Romantic movements tend to lean away from traditional religion and resemble spiritual movements in their endorsement of mystical, unorthodox, and exotic ways.[12] Owen Thomas also states that the ambiguity and lack of structure present in Romantic movements are also present within spiritual movements. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8104.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8104.txt