Dissimulação intolerante: o espectro religioso e suas implicações para uma educação em direitos humanos em diferentes escolas de Amambai, MS

Abstract

Considering the force that religion can provide as guiding sense of social actions, and in consequence, the likely tensions between religious values and human diversity of "to be" and "to think", this dissertation tried to analyze how the religious presence may interfere in schools in the municipality of Amambaí – MS, with focus related to human rights guidelines. So, we analyzed two schools, one public and one private, investigating their Pedagogical Political Projects, the thoughts of management and the opinion of the teachers and students, in an attempt to understand how the religious spectrum manifests itself in relation to different themes that compose the scope of an education committed to providing recognition and tolerance of diversity, i.e., taking the principles of human rights education. With a theoretical approach, in the first chapter we study the Sociology of Religion, in which we discuss recognized authors, including Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, to understand the possible ways of driving religion the lives of the individuals, according the dominant religion’s interests, even if there is the possibility of a progressive route of religious matrix. In the second chapter, also dedicated to theoretical foundation, we discussed about the interfaces between human rights and the secular nature of the Brazilian state, especially the relevance of these two subjects in relation to the propositions of human rights education, where we explore the possibilities and limits the defense of human dignity and the various cases of violation occurring in the Brazilian public space, whose reproduction through education and the school space occupies the centrality of the debate. In the third chapter, designated for the exhibition and analysis of empirical data collected, we exposed the reality evidenced both in public and in private schools, regarding the implications of religion on several cross-cutting themes which make up the agenda of human rights. The results collected demonstrate that the religious spectrum has a significant implication in the studied schools, especially for indicating that it can be a deterrent for tolerance of groups that are historically discriminated and the respect for religious diversity, because many Christian religions are hegemonic in these school spaces, with the consent and approval of management, the legitimation by teachers and acceptance by most students. We conclude that the panorama described by research can arouse a number of challenges to the realization of human rights and the recognition of diversity, and we suggest, in concluding remarks, some propositions to transcend them.