O ensino religioso em suas fontes: uma contribuição para a epistemologia do E. R.

Abstract

Facing to characterize the Religious Teaching as an area of knowledge, and, consequently, to understand better its nature and purpose, this dissertation has the objective to analyze three sources of the discourse about Religious Teaching such as: The Brazilian Bishop Conference (CNBB), the Permanent National Forum for the Religious Teaching, and the group called the Group of NO (Grupo do Não) appointing the respective conceptions and fundamentals of the Religious Teaching. We start from a supposition will be demonstrated that the three sources present divergent, ambiguous and contradictory conceptions related to this object as an area of knowledge. This fact would come from epistemological fundamentals that give support to the Religious Teaching of the three groups.We intend to contribute to find the epistemology of the Religious Teaching with this work from studying the three sources, their discourses and conceptions, and the reflex of them in the official texts.Analyzing the conceptions of the three sources we search the three matrices: theological discourse of the Brazilian Bishop Conference conceptions; phenomenological and anthropological vision of the human being, and of the religion as the base of the Permanent National Forum, and the Lay, pragmatic and questioning vision of education as a fundamental position of the Group of NO .This work is a documental and methodological research for studying the sources about Religious Teaching discourse.