Spirituality, cultural wisdom and salvation

The aim of this speculative paper, rooted in a variety of concepts derived from social anthropology, theology, and the history of religion, is to develop the broad notion of spirituality in terms of what might be called cultural wisdom. This I do alongside a discussion of the human proclivity for meaning-making understood as a process expressed in numerous religious traditions as 'salvation'. This latter issue can be posed as the question of how the drive for meaning becomes a process of salvation. To bring these topics together is to identify spirituality, cultural wisdom, and salvation as cognate terms whose clustering may aid the understanding of each.