A GEOGRAFIA ESCOLAR E TEMAS RELIGIOSOS: COMBATENDO A INTOLERÂNCIA RELIGIOSA

Abstract

The present master's research is configured as a work in the field of Geographical Thought which focus the affinity geography and religion and it is suggested in the subfield of cultural geography: geography of religion. For this, as a methodology, the exploratory bibliographic research was used. Its central purpose is to understand the dynamics of the development of geography and its respective connection with religion, in addition to emphasizing the practices of religious intolerance that are based on Eurocentric values. One of the greatest challenges today is religious freedom, what leads us torequiring recourse to the Constitution and other agreements to maintain order in an increasingly plural environment, which faces disrespect to practitioners of a religion other than the one held by the majority. Based on the acknowledged advance in the number of adherents of neo-Pentecostal religions, cases of religious intolerance against the followers of Afro-Brazilian religions have grown considerably. We will associate all these issues of intolerance to geography, seeking in this way a greater participation of this in the subjects related to religion. Interdisciplinarity is the means by which geography cooperates for religious teaching.In order for interdisciplinarity to be consolidated in the school space, it is necessary that education be directed to the mutual influence between the different disciplines, in a procedure of opinions dialogue, harmony of principles, themes, methods and purposes, with the intention of planning and coordinate the process of structuring knowledge. Finally, we will present the geography and its relation with religious themes, and analyze how geography focuses on cultural diversity, as well as address issues of religious conflicts that have cultural foundations. Understanding how to think of space as an environment of conflicts is pertinent to discipline, as they are highlighted themes in contemporary society, exposing the diversity of spatial links from the point of view of culture and religion. The cases of intolerance carried out by the Neo-Pentecostals will be focused as they target on those of the Afro-Brazilian religions, especially those performed by the Universal Church of God’s Kingdom. The importance of this proposal is to understand the need to study these themes in school geography, especially presenting the topic of ethnic-racial relations for discussion, interested in providing an understanding of the different religions and the importance that each of them exerts on their believers, thus fighting religious intolerance.