CIDADANIA E SERVIÇO SOCIAL FACE AO PLURALISMO RELIGIOSO BRASILEIRO: A IMPORTÂNCIA DO FORTALECIMENTO DO PROJETO ÉTICO-POLÍTICO PROFISSIONAL PARA A GARANTIA DA CIDADANIA PLENA A PARTIR DO ENTENDIMENTO DA INTOLERANCIA RELIGIOSO COMO UMA (NOVA) QUESTÃO SOCIAL

Abstract

This study addresses the religious dimension, understanding religion as a social practice, present throughout the human history. Analyzes tehe religious phenomenon and mainly the religious pluralism manifested from the laicization of the state and secularization of society. Thus, processes such a enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment of the world we approached in their historical context. It describes the occurred transformations in Western society from the effects of modernity and it also describes the economic, political, social, cultural and religious effects occurring on a global scale. This research shows the complexity of social relationships and plurality of cosmovisions, which corroborated for the formation of a plural subject, driven by captalist interests, with the media influence and na exaggerated consumerism. The article describes the constitution process of a crisis of meaning installed in conteporary society, which caused changes in the relationshio between human beings and the sacred, and this with the religion itself. It takes up these reflections to Social Service, since this study was done to analyze the importance of undestanding the religious phenomenon to strengthen the Ethical – Political Project of Social Service in securing of the full citizenship in the face of religious diversity present in contemporary society. Therefore, it presents religious intolerance as a (new) social issue, reflected in society through violent na conflictuous acts. For the methodology of this study, a bibliographic research was developed checkin four hypotheses, categorized as one central and three secondary (H1, H2 and H3), which were made through a socio-historical approach. The resultd of this research show the secondary hypothesis confirmation, demostranting that there was na evolution of the full citizenship rights proposed by Marshall (H1), and the construction of a critical Ethical-Political Project of Social Service (H2), and the realigous plurality manifestation from Modernity, consolidated in religious pluralism (H3). Ultimately, the Central Hipothesis was also been confirmed evidencing the religous phenomenon materialization in ethical-political dimension of the professional Social Work Project. In the final considerations, it was highlighted the importance of a competent na democratic positioning by Social Service professionals, as a way of repudiating any kind of dicrinatory practice, respecting freedom of coscience, worship and faith of Brazilian citizens, in this insecure social context.