SECULARISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN BRAZIL: SITUATING THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN RELIGION AND POLITICS

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Mailson Fernandes Cabral de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Interações (Uberlândia. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/interacoes/article/view/P.1983-2478.2017v12n21p77
• topic: Laicity; Religious freedom; Religious tolerance; Laicidade; Liberdade Religiosa; Tolerância religiosa.

Laicity is a central concept for the debate about the place that religion should occupy in the public space, the role of the State in guaranteeing religious freedom and the equality of different religions before the law. This paper aims to analyze this issue in the Brazilian context. For this purpose, in a first moment will be presented the historical route of the notion of religious tolerance until the emergence of the concept of laicity. Then, a theoretical itinerary of secularity and its typologies will be developed. Finally, it will be exposed its developments in the Brazilian political field regarding religious freedom, especially the probation by the Plenary of the National Council of the Public Prosecution of the proposal of recommendation that aims to ensure in the organs of public power the observance of the constitutional principle of laicity.