Revisão bibliográfica do tema Espiritualidade nas empresas à luz de uma compreensão teológica sobre espiritualidade fundamentada no pensamento do teólogo Paul Tillich

Abstract

The research concerns a bibliographic analysis about the theme spirituality within enterprises and seeks to comprehend it, in its relevance, through a theological view on spirituality. The research is restricted to the theme of spirituality within enterprises in the Brazilian context, and the bibliographic material of revision consists of the magazines Exame, Revista da Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing e Revista Gv-Executivo, in addition to some articles from the Internet. The first chapter comprises an exploratory revision about the theme spirituality within enterprises in terms of conceptions and seeks to comprehend its relevance and intentionality in the business arena. In the second chapter, based on the thoughts of the theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich (1886-1965), we develop a comprehension about spirituality as a scope and as an aim of the effectuation of life in the dimension of the human spirit, according to the principles of integration, creativeness and trascendency of life, and its effectuation in the moral, cultural and religious acts of the human beings; an whole spirituality is constituted. In the conclusion, the main ideas from the first and second chapters are recalled in order to raise some possibilities and limitations of spirituality within enterprises through a theological perspective.