MONOPÓLIO RELIGIOSO NA CAPELANIA MILITAR BRASILEIRA: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DE JÜRGEN HABERMAS

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to present an analysis of the religious monopoly in Brazilian military chaplaincy. The main guiding author of the theoretical frameworks is Jürgen Habermas, using his theories on communicative action, secularization, citizenship, the social role of religion in the public sphere and the concept of post-secularism, it was possible to demonstrate the existence of a monopoly and proposal for a democratic solution to this imbroglio. Brazilian militarism represents the State in its executive power, and thus, it can not present itself as an institution that does not respect the current legislative guidelines regarding the laity of the State and the right of religious assistance to every citizen who participates in hospitalization whether in a civil or military environment, nor can it be guided by religious guidelines that exclude the democratic principle of the democratic State of law, preventing other religious officiants from exercising the function of official chaplain, since there are military personnel beyond the Christian religion, which presents itself as the dominant one. The methodology used in the research is the bibliographical one. In the course of this study, we sought to present the mythical construction of the chaplain in the public sphere, the influences of religion on Brazilian militarism, and, finally, the consequences for post-secular society. After the research, it was observed that the model of Brazilian religious assistance is exclusive, a sense that he can not shelter all religions, only Catholic and Protestant Christianity.