Fronteiras da crença: da libertação ao carisma, a presença católica na cidade de Juina (1978-1998)

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

Céu, inferno e purgatório: representações espíritas do além

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

A ciência do governar: positivismo, evolucionismo e natureza em Lauro Sodré

A polêmica jornalística que, em 1881, envolveu o então 2º Tenente Lauro Sodré, o bispo D. Macedo Costa e o jornal católico A Boa Nova, ocorreu num momento em que já estavam presentes na sociedade brasileira os fatores da desagregação do Império. O que se pretendeu, com este trabalho, foi estudar o confronto como representação discursiva de um choque de ideias nos quadros sociais e intelectuais do Brasil do final do Oitocentos: com o primeiro, a ciência e o progresso, instrumentos apontados como fundamentais para a república; com o segundo, a fé e a religião, instrumentos essenciais para a monarquia. De acordo com a perspectiva filosófico-histórica do positivismo, essas questões fundamentavam o processo de evolução social do Homem, inclusive politicamente entendida. Note-se, igualmente, que na obra máxima da teoria evolucionista, On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859) de Darwin, o movimento histórico se subordina decididamente às leis naturais e se insere no processo mais amplo da evolução do universo. A evolução é considerada, efetivamente, não como um simples movimento, mas como melhoramento, um progresso. Aos olhos positivistas de Lauro Sodré, a ideia de uma monarquia atrelada à sobrevivência da origem divina do poder aparecia como uma digna representação dos estados não-epistemológicos da humanidade, o metafísico e o teológico; já a república surgia como a única forma de governo “compatível com a dignidade humana”. Projetada esta polêmica sobre as realidades mentais do próprio tempo, tem-se, em última análise, a revelação de um dos componentes da natureza e das formas que assumiu a problemática relação entre pensamento filosófico e objeto político dominante no movimento de ideias no Brasil ao final do século XIX.

Uma análise do espiritismo em Fortaleza-CE, com ênfase na expansão territorial do grupo espírita Paulo e Estevão (GEPE), na perspectiva de visibilidade do espaço religioso

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

As abordagens da morte no currículo de formação inicial de professores de ensino religioso no Pará

O presente estudo busca identificar as abordagens da morte no currículo de formação inicial de professores de Ensino Religioso no Pará, partindo dos pressupostos metodológicos da pesquisa qualitativa, de tradição fenomenológico-hermenêutica, aplicando a abordagem hermenêutica filosófica de Hans Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), discutida na obra Verdade e método (2011), para o qual a compreensão é um diálogo entre pergunta e resposta, cuja finalidade é estabelecer um acordo quanto ao assunto em discussão. Dessa forma, o assunto em discussão consiste em identificar essas abordagens e o diálogo é estabelecido de modo mais específico com o currículo de formação inicial desses professores. O diálogo entre o texto (currículo) e intérprete (pesquisa) permite pela linguagem identificar vários preconceitos, que segundo Gadamer são herdados da tradição. A tarefa hermenêutica, nesse aspecto, consiste em encontrar os preconceitos legítimos, sendo estes fundamentais para a compreensão. Dito isso, e a partir do estudo realizado, a ressurreição vem se mantendo como abordagem da morte predominante em relação às demais que não deixam de acontecer, haja vista a forte presença da tradição judaico-cristã católica na sociedade brasileira, servindo de base e manutenção de vários preconceitos legítimos e ilegítimos alcançando as Ciências da Religião e o Ensino Religioso, restringindo a importância de outras abordagens tanto na formação inicial quanto na prática do componente curricular, implicando no diálogo e na própria compreensão do ser que pode ser compreendido como linguagem.

Um estudo intergeracional sobre autonomia e iniciação sexual de universitárias e suas mães

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um espelho esmaecido: o reino visigodo de Toledo, cristianismo e monarquia

This paper aims to present some characteristics of Hispania in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (4th-8th centuries). Search through a brief analysis of the relationship between Christianity and the Catholic Monarchy stood raise some issues and questions. We understand that Christianity has played and plays a significant role in the historical development of the Iberian countries. But in its installation and attempt to consolidation as hegemonic religion in the peninsula, faced several challenges. His alliance with the monarchy stood represented one of the ways to make stronger its dominance. In turn, the Monarchy, preserving its characteristic elective associated strongly with Christianity, giving him a theocratic character trying to raise the sovereign above the fray aristocratic, without much success. Thus, our text points to some of the paths followed by these two elements, Christianity and Monarchy at the time of the Kingdom of Toledo, proposing more reflections and ways that effectively covering them. We hope to have achieved it.

O reino Visigodo: catolicismo e permanências pagãs

What became accustomed to call “paganism” is undoubtedly one of the most significant forms of what is designated as “popular religiosity”. This expression, which seems useful when a generalization is required, shows all its weakness when a more precise and objective observation of a particular religion is attempted. Would the official visigothic kingdom’s “conversion” to Catholicism, with Recardo (586-601) at the Council of Toledo of 589 have effectively matched to the “conversion” of this kingdom’s population? Firstly, it is necessary to consider, in beyond the exalting intentions of the sources of that moment, that mass conversions do not imply a radical change in the convictions and religious practices of an entire people. Secondly, that “conversion” and “Christianization” are not synonymous. “Religiosity”, which includes the “conversion”, implies a fundamental religious attitude, which can simply be interior and personal. On the other hand, “religion”, in which “Christianization” is included, would correspond to a public aspect, institutionalized, which elaborates a set of techniques aiming, as in the case of “religiosity”, the guarantee of the supernatural Thus, elevated to the position of “official religion,” Catholic Christianity would live with a series of rites, rituals, devotions, from the previous “religiosity” that, through its ecclesiastical perspective, would be reprehensible, considered marginal and something that would lead to error. However, on the eve of the Muslim invasion in 711, not only among the laity but even in ecclesiastical segments, the manifestations of the “paganism” still were aim of coactive condemnation in the Catholic kingdom of Toledo’s councils.

A oposição da Igreja Católica à ordem jurídica republicana: o pensamento teológico-político de D. Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques (1894-1935)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Specifying the effects of religion on medical helpseeking: The case of infertility

Several recent studies have examined the connection between religion and medical service utilization. This relationship is complicated because religiosity may be associated with beliefs that either promote or hinder medical helpseeking. The current study uses structural equation modeling to examine the relationship between religion and fertility-related helpseeking using a probability sample of 2183 infertile women in the United States. We found that, although religiosity is not directly associated with helpseeking for infertility, it is indirectly associated through mediating variables that operate in opposing directions. More specifically, religiosity is associated with greater belief in the importance of motherhood, which in turn is associated with increased likelihood of helpseeking. Religiosity is also associated with greater ethical concerns about infertility treatment, which are associated with decreased likelihood of helpseeking. Additionally, the relationships are not linear throughout the helpseeking process. Thus, the influence of religiosity on infertility helpseeking is indirect and complex. These findings support the growing consensus that religiously-based behaviors and beliefs are associated with levels of health service utilization.

Religious communities and HIV prevention: An intervention study using a human rights-based approach

Religious communities have been a challenge to HIV prevention globally. Focusing on the acceptability component of the right to health, this intervention study examined how local Catholic, Evangelical and Afro-Brazilian religious communities can collaborate to foster young people`s sexual health and ensure their access to comprehensive HIV prevention in their communities in Brazil. This article describes the process of a three-stage sexual health promotion and HIV prevention initiative that used a multicultural human rights approach to intervention. Methods included 27 in-depth interviews with religious authorities on sexuality, AIDS prevention and human rights training of 18 young people as research-agents, who surveyed 177 youth on the same issues using self-administered questionnaires. The results, analysed using a rights-based perspective on health and the vulnerability framework, were discussed in daylong interfaith workshops. Emblematic of the collaborative process, workshops are the focus of the analysis. Our findings suggest that this human rights framework is effective in increasing inter-religious tolerance and in providing a collective understanding of the sexuality and prevention needs of youth from different religious communities, and also serves as a platform for the expansion of state AIDS programmes based on laical principles.

Validation of the Duke Religion Index: DUREL (Portuguese Version)

The purpose of the current study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Duke Religion Index (PDUREL) in a community setting. PDUREL was translated and adapted for administration to 383 individuals from a population-based study of low-income community-dwelling adults. The PDUREL intrinsic subscale and total scores demonstrated high internal consistency (alphas ranging from 0.733 for the total scale score to 0.758 for the intrinsic subscale). Correlations among the DUREL subscales were also examined for evidence of discriminant validity. Correlations were ranging from 0.36 to 0.46, indicating significant overlap between the scales without marked redundancy. PDUREL is a reliable and valid scale. The availability of a comprehensive, but brief measure of religiousness can help to study the role of religiousness in health by researchers from countries that speak the Portuguese language.

L'invention de l'Orthodoxie. Religion et Modernité dans le discours nationaliste roumain du XIX-ème et du XX-ème siècles

Our thesis entitled The Invention of Orthodoxy. Religion and Modernity in Romanian nationalist discourse from the XIXth to the XXth century is intended to be a history of the idea of “Romanianess” which brings together, in a structural as well as in a conceptual dimension, three major themes: Romanian Orthodoxy, Modernity and the Political. Having as premise for the study of the Romanian case the simultaneous genesis of the religious and political communities, from the Middle Ages to Modernity, the purpose of our inquiry is to formulate a theologico-political definition of ‘’Romanian Orthodoxy’’. Thus, within a main theoretical framework that values the contributions of Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault and Reinhart Koselleck, our analysis of selected texts that go from the 1860’s to the 1940’s tries to answer the question regarding the relationship between Romanian Orthodoxy and Modernity, as well as its reflection upon the political identity and organisation of the Romanian society. Considering the political context of the events that underline our conceptual focus, we consider that the proper answer to our investigation lies within the logic of multiplicity; namely, we refer to a plural Romania which is divided, at the beginning of the XXth century, between Traditionalism and Modernity, between a massive rural, agrarian society and an urban minority elite, striving to single out, in an phenomenological approach, the “Romanian way”. Secondly, we refer to a plural Modernity, which is at the same time social, cultural, religious and political. Thirdly, the logic of multiplicity applies as well in the interpretation of the fractures present within the religious nationalist discourse; namely, the rejection of Orthodoxy during the XIXth century, as it was considered an impediment in Romania’s path to adopting western modernity and later on, starting with the 1930, the restoration of the “Orthodox ethos” as a source of cultural and political values of the Romanian nation.

Sakralisierung des Alltags und Banalisierung des Heiligen: Religion und Konsum in Ägypten /// Arbeitspapiere / Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien ; 69

Religiöse Güter hatten schon immer etwas Besonderes. Amulette und Souvenirs, die an heiligen Stätten verkauft werden, oder Bücher und Audiokassetten mit religiösem Inhalt, wie sie überall erhältlich sind, strahlen einen Segen aus, der sie von profanen Gütern unterscheidet. Im heutigen Ägypten sind sie indes nicht unumstritten, was eng mit der sich wandelnden Grenzziehung zwischen Profanem und Religiösem zusammenhängt. Diente der spirituelle Bezug früher zur Legitimation und versah selbst alltägliche Güter wie Kichererbsen mit einer Aura der Heiligkeit, hat sich seit dem 20. Jahrhundert eine Sicht verbreitet, die diesen Zusammenhang problematisiert. Sie versteht Religion als ein ordnendes Prinzip, das den Alltag durchdringt. Gleichzeitig muss, folgt man dieser Sicht, die Religion in ihrem Kern gegen jedwede Profanität geschützt werden. Tatsächlich aber wird Religion dadurch immer mehr konsumiert. Dies führt zu einer schwer lösbaren Spannung zwischen dem Anspruch auf allumfassende religiöse Disziplin und einem Alltag, der trotz der allgegenwärtigen Religion seinen ambivalenten, widersprüchlichen Charakter behält.