Ensino religioso ou ensino sobre religiões: A concepção de ensino religioso escolar no estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The research treat the conceptions of Religious Teaching in the public school system shows and analyses the explicit and implicit conceptions that appear in preliminary and subsequent discussions concerning the Law 10783/01 which occurred in the Legislative Assembly in occasion of the process of the Project of Law 1036/99. Focusing also on the Deliberation CEE 16/2001 and the Indication CEE 07/2001 and the writings produced by the Religious Teaching mentors for public school of the State of São Paulo, inserted in Notebooks of Religious Teaching and in the articles published in the electronic magazine REVER. As a theoretical presumption for those analyses the main conceptions of Religious Teaching such as the confession, the transreligious and the phenomenological were shown. Concluding that the Religious Teaching in public school in State of São Paulo presents itself as a mixture of various conflicting conceptions prevailing the tendency of characterizing it as the Teaching of Religions, focusing on history, culture and ethics, instead of on the transreligious conception and phenomenological which consider fundamental, as fallow, the study and the experience of the transcendent