JUBILAÇÃO DE PASTORES: ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE A PERCEPÇÃO DE VALORES, PROPÓSITO E SENTIDO DA VIDA

Abstract

The present work is a descriptive and exploratory research of a qualitative nature through a case study on the retirement of pastors, reflecting on the values, purpose and meaning of life that the ecclesiastical career provides for the individual. Retirement is the term commonly used when the subject is retirement of pastors, this word provides a connotation of jubilation, joy, notion of accomplishment, different from the name retirement that suggests an idea of retreat to the quarters, suggesting, in this way, a feeling of uselessness and invalidity. The objective of this research was to investigate whether there is a correlation between retirement and the decrease in the perception of values, purpose and meaning of life of evangelical priests, based on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis by Viktor Frankl. We used Laurence Bardin's content analysis technique as a resource for data analysis. In the end, we concluded that the worker does not understand retirement as a negative element, but with a feeling of satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment.