Saved you a click of the Independent’s usual clickbait nonsense:

• the research is conducted by an author of a new book he would like to sell you

• ‘spiritual’ has such a vague definition as to almost mean anything

• one characteristic is “a yearning to connect with something bigger than myself”.

• entirely unsurprising this is how a younger generation categorise the lack they feel as a result of covid isolation and disillusionment with unobtainable material life goals

• ‘spiritual’ in this context means ‘life feels empty but I think there should be something more’

• aside from that there’s a small minority of the conservative religious seeing a small increase (muslims, evangelical Christians)