Diversidade e racismo religioso no ensino fundamental na escola EEEFM Antônio Carneiro Ribeiro em Guaçuí – ES

Abstract

Racism and religious intolerance are topics that have been discussed more frequently and the school is one of the main environments where topics of such social relevance can be debated and the main place for the formation of critical citizens. In this work, discrimination and religious racism in the school context will be addressed, since the school environment has great cultural and religious diversity, being a reflection of our society. Therefore, the problem question that will guide this work is "how is Religious Education configured at the Antonio Carneiro Ribeiro State School of Elementary and High School (EEEFM) in Guaçuí - ES?". The general objective of this research is to analyze the practices of Religious Teaching in the mentioned school, in the context of African matrix religions. The specific objectives, on the other hand, seek to: historically contextualize the legislation that normalizes the curriculum of the Religious Teaching discipline in Brazil; understand concepts of religiosity and Science of Religion; understand the panorama of African-based religions in Brazil and religious racism; to investigate how school teachers approach Religious Teaching at school and whether there is religious racism in this environment. Regarding the methodology, the theoretical review part of the work follows the precepts of the exploratory study, through the literature review. The field research methodology is qualitative in nature and the instrument for data collection was a semi-structured questionnaire. In the specific case of the researched school, it was possible to observe that the teachers of Religious Education do not prioritize a specific religion, however, they also do not approach, during the year, the ethnic-racial theme, which, in itself, is already a forms religious racism, since it is a form of erasure and silencing of a considerable representative part of Afro-Brazilian culture.