A disciplina de cultura religiosa como espaço integralizador da educação, na universidade

• Autor(a) principal: Klering, José Romaldo
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional PUCRS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2698
• topic: EDUCAÇÃO RELIGIOSA; RELIGIÃO - ENSINO; CULTURA - ASPECTOS RELIGIOSOS; UNIVERSIDADES CATÓLICAS; INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE

In their curricula, confessional institutions of superior education present as subject the so – called religious culture or something equivalent. It is a formal locus by which institutional ideas are known by the students. Generally it follows the logic of the fragmentation of the knowledge, culminating in hiperspecialization. Here we see one of the principal difficulties. On account of the subjects more and more directed to specific areas, the validity of the religious instruction is called into question. The principal problem we don’t find in the approach of religious subjects but in the focus of superior education which intends to the preparation and provision for a profession. The pragmatism, encouraged by a epistemological principle and by a tradition rooting in the development of the society and its culture, doesn’t look the human being, also in superior education, in its integrity. Concepts like culture, religion and education are present pointing to a general problematization which compels to a new viewpoint aiming at a new understanding obtained by means of dialogue with other authors, documents of the Catholic Church and the so – called International Federation of the Catholic Universities. Starting from the fact that university’s evolution takes place according to the paradigm of the modernity, characterized by fragmentation as well as by rational empirism, without a focus on essential horizons and dimensions of the human being, our purpose is to present the religious culture as an integrating space, placing it as a epistemic area in the confluence of theological, philosophical, scientific and religious knowledge.We focus on the construction of trainings to be developed in our subject and the relation of these areas with others of the knowledge, in order to respect and to support the search of life’s meaning, deepening the understanding about the importance of religious culture in the university with indicators directing the efforts toward possible proposals for their adequation to the present educational context as an integration space.