Spirituality and the Art of Good Hope

In this paper I make a case for and explore the underappreciated relation between spirituality and hope. In the first part of the paper I propose a broad account of spirituality that makes room for secular and non-doxastic forms, and argue that hope is a necessary constituent of spirituality so understood. In the second part of the paper I dig into this observation, and argue that understanding this relation sheds new light on the character of spirituality as embodying techniques for developing and improving the ways that we hope and the ways that we envision the future.