The poetic nature of non-religious Spirituality: A point of view by Jean Paul Sartre

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Alex Villas Boas

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This article proposes to examine some theories of non-religious spirituality in light of the growing phenomenon of those individuals who declared themselves as having "no religion" by Brazilian religious census conducted in 2010 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The intention here is to identify how the poetic question presents itself as the fundamental element of these proposals about spirituality for authors, since beauty is part of the spiritual quest, as in: Viktor Frankl and existential religiosity grounded in the search for meaning in life; Marià Corbí and his non-religious or secular spirituality; Robert Solomon and his spirituality for skeptics, and André Comte-Sponville and his atheistic spirituality, or spirituality without God. From there, we then present the perception of spirituality in the poetry of the thought of Jean Paul Sartre, primarily in his work “what is Literature?”

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VILLAS BOAS, Alex. The poetic nature of non-religious Spirituality: A point of view by Jean Paul Sartre. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 12, n. 35, p. 777–804, 2014. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2014v12n35p777. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2014v12n35p777. Acesso em: 25 oct. 2025.
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Alex Villas Boas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)

Departamento de Teologia

Teologia e Literatura