A política como serviço ao outro

: reflexões sobre a Unidade Letiva 1 do Ensino Secundário - Política, Ética e Religião, do programa de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica

Abstract

In this Final Report of the Supervised Teaching Practice, the hypothesis of politics as a rich and favorable pedagogical and didactic path to the discipline of Catholic Moral and Religious Education (EMRC) is investigated, within the scope of a cultural and mystagogical mediation of Christianity, enhancing a dialogue between politics and religion. In a school context, the contents of faith do not exist by themselves as alternative truths or in agreement with other areas of knowledge. It is therefore necessary to create an effective way for this transmission.The relationship between politics and religion, namely in the proposals made by the Social Doctrine of the Church, appears as a possible way of working the religious dimension in the school context, more specifically, in the training itineraries of EMRC. Bearing this in mind, it is important to reflect on the role of politics and religion in this process of religious and cultural transmission. Religions can emerge as spaces where the deepest questions of Man areconsidered and where an answer is sought. It is in the search for this answer that politics plays a fundamental role. Politics, like religion, stimulates and challenges the totality of the human being. Politics and religion appear linked together, as if they were relatives, since they seek the same end: the Common Good. In this connection, religion presents proposals that can and should influence politics. The discipline of EMRC can see in political activity a precious help, both in its ability to be a symbol, in its ability to transmit the faith, as well as in its ability toquestion and question the interior of the human heart in order to guide them on an itinerary of faith. Reflection on the relationship between politics and religion should help discipline in this mission of disturbing and putting Man on his way.

Date of Award	22 Sept 2022
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Sérgio Ribeiro Pinto (Supervisor)