Ensino religioso e literatura : um diálogo a partir do poema morte e vida severina

Abstract

This dissertation aims to highlight the importance of dialogue with the religious education literature in view of making this area of knowledge appropriate to exercise a dialogue with other knowledge areas in order to find creative ways of its implementation. Our study object was the poem Morte e Vida Severina by João Cabral de Melo Neto, Auto de Natal Pernambucano, a dramatic poem which treats of the human condition of the Sertão man, tells the story of a migrant who seeks the coast and in each still faced with the anonymous death and collective death to reach its final destination, the city of Recife, where is the birth of a child, symbol of hope. Its main character who is a migrant Severino be plural, because it represents all the disinherited Severina living life without decent living conditions where there are shortages of everything. The text allows for reflection on the whole backcountry trek, which passes through which makes complete record of the life situation of the people and landscape of the Nordeste, guided by Rio Capibaribe that as the backcountry also suffers from drought, for the period drought drought in some places making it difficult to walk through the wilderness. The purpose of the main character of the poem is a continuous search for better life than death. The methodology of this research was bibliographical and was proposing to seek, in the imagination of the literary text, the notions of identity as a need to belong to a group social solidarity as a vital year of experience in the ethical training of the individual and the transcendent dimension of religiosity as human, which pervades all religions, to allow reconnection with the sacred, from the perspective of pluralist Religious Science, in view of the urgency of working to make these elements in the teaching of Religious Education, to contribute to the integral formation of civic life. This dissertation submitted proposals for consideration to collaborate with the stimulation of this teaching, from the poetic text in order to facilitate understanding, not only this area of expertise, but through dialogue with other relevant areas, enabling a new alternative to reencante pedagogical knowledge area of Religious Education and education