Religious Education: a field of Applied Science of Religion

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Elisa
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/22257
• topic: Religious Education; Applied Science of Religion; Subarea of the Knowledge; Curricular component; Religion and Education; Religious Education; Curricular component; Religion and Education; Applied Science of Religion; Ensino Religioso; Componente curricular; Ciência da Religião Aplicada; Subárea de Conhecimento; Religião e Educação; Ensino Religioso.; Componente curricular; Religião e educação; Ciência da Religião Aplicada; Subárea de Conhecimento

The following article represents a synthesis effort on the narrative of Religious Education formation in the Brazilian official documents on Education. Thus, it intends to be a theoretical and pedagogical instrument for understanding this curricular component as a field of Applied Science of Religion. In order to achieve this goal, we divide the text into three parts. In the first part, the possible classifications of Religious Education, which would be the subarea of knowledge of the Science of Religion or the Applied Science of Religion and the curricular component that composes the subjects defined at the Brazilian Elementary School level. In the second part of this article some elements of the official documents are discussed, the Common National Curriculum Base (2017) and the National Curriculum Guidelines for Licenciature of Science in Religion (2018), which guarantee the provision of Religious Education in accordance with the Law and a reflective and secular model of education. At the end, we will present and discuss in the third part some epistemological and methodological assumptions of the Science of Religion that allow the theoretical and practical basis of Religious Education.