Reflexões interdisciplinares sobre a pesquisa acadêmica em ciências da religião no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Roseli Pereira Corrêa de Lima e
• Orientador(a): Gomes, Antônio Máspoli de Araújo
• Banca de defesa: Lopes, Edson Pereira , Campos, Leonildo Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Religião
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: religião; interdisciplinaridade; epistemologia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: religion; interdisciplinarity; epistemology
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25602

The scientific character of Religious Studies has undergone three stages: the emergence of the discipline, the consolidation of its autonomy as such at an academic level, and the formation of its disciplinary field. This process occurred in a polemical environment marked by challenges, due to the fact that the discipline does not completely fulfill the strict scientificist demands of the Exact Sciences in regard to object and method, and also with reference to the neutrality of subject and object. There is now in the scientific context a new epistemological scenery, governed by the theory of interdisciplinarity and by the theory of complex systems, that places in the core of its discussions the applicability of scientificist standards to Human Sciences, as well as the disciplinary categorization resulting from excessive specialization, necessary for scientific progress but detrimental to a full view of the unity of sciences. In the present epistemological context, the proposed practice is disciplinary interaction and cooperation, research of the object under an interdisciplinary light, a shared method according to the needs of each research, and a relationship of objectivity between subject and object. In this scenery, Religious Studies are placed in the map of sciences as an integrative element, in the exercise of its tributary-contributive capacity, in the dynamics of interdisciplinary relations and in the thematic amplitude, effective and potential, of its object. Scholarly research offers evidence that, despite theoretical controversies, this interdisciplinary approach already occurs in practice.