RT Article
T1 Moral moundations of spirituality and religion through Natural Language Processing
JF Journal of management, spirituality & religion
VO 21
IS 2
SP 184
OP 205
A1 Alpaslan, Can M.
A1 Mitroff, Ian I. 1938-
LA English
PB International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/188365937X
AB To explore the similarities/differences between the moral contexts in which scholars use the terms religion and spirituality, we use Moral Foundations Dictionary for Linguistic Analyses 2.0 (MFD), a dictionary developed to assess the moral content of text, and a Natural Language Processing algorithm (Word2Vec) that learns the semantic relationships in a corpus. The findings suggest that, except in the virtue words category of the Care foundation dictionary, religion semantically overlaps with a greater percentage of MFD words than does spirituality. Both religion and spirituality have greater semantic overlaps with virtue words than vice words; compared to religion, spirituality's semantic overlaps with vice words are smaller. Spirituality has greater overlaps only with the MFD words for Care and Sanctity; religion has greater semantic overlaps with words for all foundations, particularly the "binding" foundations: Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity. Similarities notwithstanding, the moral contexts of religion and spirituality feature different aspects of morality.
K1 Moral Foundations Theory
K1 Natural Language Processing
K1 Religion
K1 Spirituality
K1 Word2vec
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.51327/WLON1757