A Laicidade e a (im)possibilidade do ensino religioso nas escolas públicas do Brasil: os perigos da “catequização” institucionalizada

Abstract

This article has the aim, in view of the standart of Secular State adopted in Brazil, to bring reflections and problematizations in the matter of religious education‟s practise in elementary public schools. The theme is importante as reiterated religious intolerance manifestations happen in the country, breaking the logic of the Human Rights protected by the Constitution. The constitucionalization of religious education, since a historical analysis, is related to political and simbolical strategies of the Catholic Church, as a way of perpetuating its guidelines in brazilian society. In this context, the actual public school, when offering the religious subject, can be a space of segregation and not noticing the other. The research is based on other literatures about this matter, as well as, in native laws. From this text is possible to conclude that there is a total legal omission about the pratical shapes of religious subject, opening space to the discricionarity of each religious entity, causing great anomalies in an education that, in /thesis, should be secular. Thus, there is the alternative of teaching Human Rights in elementary school, in a way of creating conscience and respect to any diference, including the religious one.