Racismo religioso: caminhos para o combate a violência religiosa no campo da educação

Abstract

This work aims to understand and affirm the concept of religious racism as it emerges in the field of education, bringing the theoretical framework of Religious Studies into dialogue with History and Religious Education. Several theses and dissertations from the fields of Religious Studies and Theology were selected for analysis, highlighting the distinct meanings surrounding experiences of Religious Racism and Religious Intolerance in the school context, from a decolonial epistemological lens. Case reports emerging from professional and research experience were also analyzed, aiming to understand the different perceptions of these phenomena. Through research and research-training, cases arising from my teaching experience as a History teacher that sparked religious and ethnic-racial debate in schools were problematized. The analyses led to the conclusion that Religious Racism has been combated by agents and educators aligned with anti-racist agendas, even though it is popularly referred to as Religious Intolerance, pointing to the need to centralize the racial debate in delimiting the concept of Religious Racism in the area of religious science.