A interdisciplinaridade como categoria essencial da Ciência da Religião: reflexões de seu uso, significado e possíveis contribuições à disciplina

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify how interdisciplinarity can contribute to Religious Studies. There is an understanding that, in spite of being widely used in the field, interdisciplinarity is not a word or concept well explained by the field, having its meaning and purpose so adapted to the field’s reality to the point of turning it into a problem to some extent, moving it away from its purpose of dealing with the fragmentation and specialization of knowledge, as the literature of this area exposes it. We start from the hypothesis that interdisciplinarity is not only a methodology, a way of producing knowledge, but it is likewise an attitude that one takes on while facing the problem of knowledge. Considering this, our hypothesis is that the epistemology of interdisciplinarity could contribute to Religious Studies as an academic-scientific discipline that is part of the wide academic field of Humanities.