'Spiritual intelligence is a term use to discern a suite or set of propensities comprising: perceptions, intuitions, cognitions, etc., related to spirituality and/or religiosity. It has been discredited by its detractors as pseudoscientific[citation needed] due to its employment in popular psychology and New Age discourse. As the term and phenomenon of spirituality and the anthropological and sociological dimension of this human endeavour is challenging to define - indeed, a persistent incorrigible intangible - it poses a significant challenge for scientific methodology and analyses which for veracity, necessitates categorical criteria to model, chart and compare. In spite of both its popular currency and its protracted retraction, spiritual intelligence as an emergent, viable construct within psychology, bolstered particularly by Transpersonal Psychology, is receiving considerable scholarship.