ABSTRACT
In view of the dearth of research on spirituality and the previously documented difficulties encountered by modernist epistemological approaches for exploring the notion of a transcendent dimension, the documentation of such findings on spirituality is considered important. The serious intent behind this research has been a desire to engage in the ethical praxis of constructing different ways of seeing which may go some way in protecting more marginalised ways of knowing from the hegemony of powerful discourses. By challenging the notion of rationalism and situating this research in postmodern notions of discourse and power. An important outcome has been to show that for those associated with the work of Karuna Hospice Service the notion of spirituality is in an active relationship to the construction of reality for both worker and client. The original fear that a nihilist denial of any position was the sine qua non of the postmodern approach, has been challenged by the actual doing of this research.
