O trânsito religioso e os jovens de Itaberaí (bairro Fernanda Park)

Abstract

In the post-modern context, splinter beliefs and ritual practices appear which demonstrate the existence of various ways to reach the sacred. The interaction between the individual and religion presents itself marked with a more flexible and fluid individual conduct, in the logic of the relativization of the boundaries between the available religious systems. It is possible then, organizing a classification of contemporary religious experience, to detail at least three ways in which this experience appears: the privatization of the sacred, the religious transit or traffic, and the displacement of the sacred. Today, religious change exists as an alternative and can happen more than once in the life span of these people. To wander between different religious options is a plausible attitude just as much for catholic youth as it is for noncatholics. We note that either when undertaking the private construction of their sacred cosmos , or drifting between different religious options, or even conjugating religious and secular traditions, the common elements which run through the contemporary religious experience are the dimensions: emotional, holistic and therapeutic, expressing themselves differently depending on the person and the socio-cultural contexts. In the same way, an analysis of these dimensions opens up an opportunity to rethink, on the one hand the transformations in the field of religious institutions and on the other, the process of the formation of the social and individual identities in the Brazilian culture, and the rethinking of new models which contemporary society proposes for us, that with the influence of secularization changes, not so much to a loss of religion but rather the appearance and revitalization of religion.