Espiritualidade e sentido de vida na perspectiva do grupo de pesquisa Nous

Abstract

The aim of this research was to identify the guiding principle of the publications carried out by members of the Nous group: spirituality and meaning, in particular scientific articles. The method used was quantitative-qualitative and fifteen publications of articles were collected between the period from 2009 to 2017. According to the collection, spirituality and meaning of life are relevant themes from the perspective of the Nous group through their scientific publications, since they demonstrated how these subjects have often been analyzed by their researchers. For the work done, a clipping was made in the articles selecting only the abstracts of each publication. The analysis was performed using the Iramuteq Software. Among the several analyzes we selected three types: Dendogram - Descending Hierarchical Classification (CHD), where we present the words that were used more frequently, the second graphic was the Analysis of Similitude that shows us the terms that are most intertwined and finally, the Cloud of Words that makes us check the range of terms used being those of greater presentation the central terms. The results obtained were that the fifteen publications collected are interrelated through Frankish thinking regarding the terms "meaning", "life" and "death". Thus, we conclude that the existence of a conductive wire was diagnosed and serves as a link between the analyzed researches. It has been realized that the meaning of life and the sense of death are the themes most frequently addressed by these publications.