CATHOLIC SPIRITUALITY VS WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY WHAT ARE THE POINTS OF CONTACT?

The managerial workplace spirituality project, which has aimed to create a universal conception of spirituality, reduced the understanding of spirituality. It turned out that the workplace was not as secular as expected, and the diversity of circulating conceptions of spirituality caused confusion not only for scholars but also for practitioners. This review explains how the perspectives of Catholic and secular spirituality can enrich each other and reduce terminological confusion in scientific research. A mixed methodological approach of bibliometric and narrative analysis was applied. The search in the Web of Science database yielded 604 articles on workplace spirituality and 737 articles on Catholic spirituality. Using the VOSviewer software, thematic maps of both research fields were created, and the contexts of overlapping terms were identified and discussed. It has been found that themes in both research fields diverged. Although only 12.9 and 10.2 percent of terms in the religious and secular perspective, respectively, overlapped, many of them were understood differently and had different contexts. The paper discusses how the Catholic approach to the person, the relationship to other persons and the environment, the diversity of spiritual practices could enrich the agenda of research on work environment, while the diversity of themes, which emerged in the managerial perspective and their reflection could broaden the field of research on Catholic spirituality. Directions for further research are also projected.