A Relação do Ensino Religioso e a Laicidade do Estado.

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the secular nature of the Brazilian state, focusing on the provision of Religious Education in the public school system. Presents the successive changes that accompany this curriculum component. For this, there was a literature documentary and bibliographical research from contemporary documents: laws and normative opinions of Education. On bibliographical research were consulted scientific publications concerning the subject, drawn up between 1970 and 2013.The result of the document analysis on the relationship between secular state and the religious education in recent years indicate that the regional spheres public education systems seek to do away all forms of sectarianism and religious proselytism that prioritizes either religious matrix. With this, there is the introduction of a model of religious education with anthropological approach, which involves the different religious arrays of Brazilian culture. The document analysis of scientific publications support the need of religious education in the basic training of the students, since this presents the religious diversity of the socio-cultural-historical Brazilian context. In this educational approach has focused on the religious phenomenon not only a religious matrix of Brazilian culture. This research indicates changes as to the neutrality and religious impartiality in public spaces and the commitment to secularism in education.