RELIGIÃO E SAÚDE: O CASO DE PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA INTELECTUAL E SUA AUTODEFENSORIA

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the role of religion in the building and maintaining of the social nomie in people s with intellectual disabilities, their parents and caregivers life. It also tries to get answers to society s questions about the social inclusion of people with intellectual retardation, looking for efficient and accurate information that will be taken public to facilitate the solution of problems of health, education and selfadvocates. Social processes have been observed along field research with mothers and fathers of patients with intellectual disabilities, assisted by the Centro de Reabilitação e Readaptação Doutor Henrique Santillo (CRER), in the city of Goiania. The paper also discusses the social phenomena of religion in promoting a causal link between intelectual retardation in order to understand better its meanings, the emotional and logical synapses of mothers and fathers, and the problem these people had with the responses on how they are experienced situations of anomie, aging and death, and the articulating role of religion in situations of anomie, selfadvocates and disability.