Against the backdrop of the current changes of the global socio-religious landscapes transforming the meanings and cultural appropriations of the notion of spirituality (Fedele & Knibbe 2013), this article explores more closely what differences and similarities are actually to be traced between spiritual and religious. Analyzing the answers of persons who state: "I follow a religion, I am not a spiritual person", and "I don't follow a religion, I am a spiritual person" in the 2009 and 2018 edition of the cross-sectional survey MOSAiCH, focusing on the Swiss population’s values and attitudes toward a wide range of social issues those, the authors follow the claim to bring the “social back” (Altglas, Wood 2018) into the study of religion. The contextual social dimension of the distinctions between these identifications are questioned in structural terms, with the help in particular of offering a demographic profiling of the
groups. The authors conclude on the necessity to situate and embed the use of the current category of “spirituality” (Huss 2014) into its actual social context.