![]() At the same time, character strengths can enhance and deepen spiritual practices, rituals, and experiences. In this exploration, we argue that there is a robust synergy of these sciences and practices revealing that spirituality is vitally concerned with promoting character strengths. At the same time, the science of spirituality has steadily unfolded over the last few decades and has offered only occasional attention to select strengths of character (e.g., humility, love, and forgiveness) or the universal typology of the VIA classification of character strengths and virtues. The science of character strengths has surged in recent years with hundreds of studies, yet with minimal attention to spirituality or the literature thereof. Little attention has been given to the integral relationship between character strengths and spirituality (the search for or communing with the sacred to derive meaning and purpose). 3Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, KY, United States.2Department of Counseling and Human Development, Achva Academic College, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.1VIA Institute on Character, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
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