ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept 'spirituality' and its core characteristics, and focuses on the relationship between leisure and spirituality. Three fundamental structures underlie all the forms of spirituality. The first structure concerns a relational process between the Divine and the human. The second relates to a gradual process from awe to love and the third entails transformation that takes place on personal, social and sociocultural levels of human existence. The chapter focuses on the implications that research done in this regard has for the conceptualisation of leisure and spirituality. Three leisure scholars are consulted: Willson, the aforementioned Heintzman, and Schmidt. It has been pointed out earlier that Blackshaw holds leisure to be a devotional practice, which entails that the conscious individual appropriation of leisure practices is based on a feeling that deems those practices to be something 'holy', as 'though engaging in it were a religious function'. The chapter finally discusses some main coordinates of the concept of spirituality.
