Submitted by JAYANE SANTOS GUIMARÃES null (jayguimaraes@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-01-16T18:18:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 OKJAYANE Segunda revisao - pronto - impressao 2.pdf: 1300481 bytes, checksum: 6b958a83bf482ef46d0fcccdfe83c70a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Aparecida Matias null (alinematias@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-01-17T10:46:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 guimaraes_js_me_arafcl.pdf: 1300481 bytes, checksum: 6b958a83bf482ef46d0fcccdfe83c70a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-17T10:46:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 guimaraes_js_me_arafcl.pdf: 1300481 bytes, checksum: 6b958a83bf482ef46d0fcccdfe83c70a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-04 / A experiência religiosa é um fenômeno de destaque em toda a história da humanidade, e que perpetua na contemporaneidade. Todavia, mesmo com diversas mudanças paradigmáticas, ainda é comum que a maioria das instituições religiosas tradicionais compreendam a sexualidade unicamente através de sua finalidade reprodutiva, reforçando a visão cis-heteronormativa. Contudo, na década de 1960, nos Estados Unidos, surge a teologia inclusiva, através da pioneira Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana, com uma visão diferenciada da teologia tradicional. Esta nova teologia vai ao encontro compreensivo das diversidades sexuais humana. Abordando os aspectos compreensivos alusivos à Igreja e sua relação com as diversidades sexuais humanas, esta dissertação corresponde às análises das falas de quatro colaboradores/as homossexuais (três homens e uma mulher), e uma mulher transexual, frequentadores/as de Igrejas Inclusivas e tem o objetivo de compreender as suas experiências religiosas. A partir do método qualitativo fenomenológico, foi possível desvelar o mundo-vida dos/as colaboradores/as a partir de um diálogo mediado pela seguinte questão norteadora: Fale para mim como tem sido sua vivência homoafetiva e sua prática religiosa desde sua infância, adolescência, fase adulta, ou seja, até o momento em que passou a conhecer e a frequentar a Igreja Inclusiva. Para as análises compreensivas das falas, ancoramos nos saberes de Mauro Martins Amatuzzi, acerca da fala autêntica e experiência religiosa. A partir das análises das falas, emergiram as seguintes categorias: (1) Nos horizontes da experiência religiosa na infância; (2) Nos horizontes da experiência religiosa na adolescência; (3) Nos horizontes da experiência religiosa na fase jovem adulta/ adulta; (4) Nos horizontes da experiência religiosa inclusiva, e (5) Silenciamento das lésbicas. Compreendemos que, após as análises, a exclusão dentro de instituições religiosas tradicionais foi um dos principais motivos que contribuiu para o sofrimento e conflito subjetivos presentes na trajetória dos/as colaboradores/as, portanto, esta dissertação pretende criar um diálogo construtivo com a finalidade de desencadear reflexões pertinentes na família, escola, mídia e na igreja a fim de desconstruir posturas homofóbicas e sexistas de modo a instituir uma ética da amorosidade, do respeito e da inclusão. / Religious experience is a prominent phenomenon throughout the history of mankind, and perpetuates it in contemporary times. However, even with several paradigmatic changes, it is still common for most traditional religious institutions to understand sexuality solely through its reproductive purpose, reinforcing the cis-heteronormative view. However, in the 1960s, in the United States, inclusive theology emerged, through the pioneering Church of the Metropolitan Community, with a differentiated view of traditional theology. This new theology goes to the understanding encounter of the human sexual diversities. This dissertation, which deals with the comprehensive aspects of the Church and its relation to human sexual diversity, corresponds to the analyzes of the statements of four homosexuals (three men and one woman), and a transsexual woman, attending Inclusive Churches, and the purpose of understanding their religious experiences. From the phenomenological qualitative method, it was possible to unveil the world-life of the collaborators from a dialogue mediated by the following guiding question: Tell me how has been your homoaffective experience and your religious practice since childhood, adolescence, adulthood, that is, until the moment he came to know and attend the Inclusive Church. For the comprehensive analyzes of the speeches, we anchor in the knowledge of Mauro Martins Amatuzzi, about authentic speech and religious experience. From the analyzes of the speeches, the following categories emerged: (1) In the horizons of religious experience in childhood; (2) On the horizons of religious experience in adolescence; (3) In the horizons of religious experience in the young adult / adult phase; (4) In the horizons of inclusive religious experience, and (5) Silencing of lesbians. We understand that, after the analysis, the exclusion within traditional religious institutions was one of the main reasons that contributed to the subjective suffering and conflict present in the trajectory of the collaborators, therefore, this dissertation intends to create a constructive dialogue with the purpose of triggering relevant reflections in the family, school, media, and church in order to deconstruct homophobic and sexist attitudes in order to institute an ethic of love, respect, and inclusion.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-03T18:54:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 reinaldodasilvajunior.pdf: 2122791 bytes, checksum: f8e972056841d4d1bd61f8769c412028 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-05T10:51:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 reinaldodasilvajunior.pdf: 2122791 bytes, checksum: f8e972056841d4d1bd61f8769c412028 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-05T10:51:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 reinaldodasilvajunior.pdf: 2122791 bytes, checksum: f8e972056841d4d1bd61f8769c412028 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-14 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Tratamos nesta tese da relação do brasileiro com o sagrado reconhecido como feminino, a partir desta temática central tocamos em questões transversais como: sincretismo, gênero, experiência religiosa, diálogo inter-religioso, Ethos; além de discutir a própria viabilidade de uma ciência da religião, pensando aí sua epistemologia e seus métodos de investigação. A complexidade da proposta nos levou a uma estrutura que dividiu o texto em duas partes: na primeira destacam-se as discussões mais teóricas, do campo epistemológico e metodológico; procuramos aí nos ancorar nos pensamentos da Fenomenologia, da Psicologia Analítica de Jung, na Psicologia Pragmática de James e no estruturalismo, buscando alguns conceitos que servissem de referência para pensar a experiência religiosa do brasileiro com este sagrado feminino. No campo metodológico procuramos apresentar uma dinâmica aberta, que envolve uma série de modelos de investigação, como a pesquisa participante, a etnografia e a coleta de dados para uma análise quantitativa. Na segunda parte do trabalho nos dedicamos à análise das experiências observadas em campo, procurando fazer a articulação com os conceitos propostos na primeira parte, para daí poder construir uma compreensão da importância deste sagrado feminino na constituição do Ethos de nosso povo. A expressão do sagrado feminino é mais do que um capricho; se apresenta como uma força de resistência e como uma necessidade das pessoas, que encontram nesta expressão uma identidade e uma possibilidade de sentido para sua religiosidade. / We treat this thesis the relationship between the Brazilian recognized as the sacred feminine, from this central theme touched on cross-cutting issues such as syncretism, gender, religious experience, interfaith dialogue, Ethos, and to discuss the viability of a science of religion, there thinking its epistemology and its methods of inquiry. The complexity of the proposal led to a structure that divided the text into two parts: first there are the more theoretical discussions, the epistemological and methodological field, try to anchor there in the thoughts of the Phenomenology of Analytical Psychology of Jung, in Psychology James and pragmatic structuralism, seeking some concepts serving as benchmarks to think the religious experience of Brazil with this sacred feminine. In the methodological field try to present an open dynamic, involving a number of different research as participatory research, ethnography and data collection for quantitative analysis. In the second part of the work dedicated to the analysis of the experiences observed in the field, looking to make the link with the concepts proposed in the first part, then to be able to build an understanding of the importance of the sacred feminine in the constitution of the Ethos of our people. The expression of the sacred feminine is more than a whim; presents itself as a force of resistance and as a need for people who are in this expression an identity and a sense of possibility for their religiosity.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-04-20T17:42:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 flaviaribeiroamaro.pdf: 1610704 bytes, checksum: 0e6077e1d78576a741f2f6e4817cc697 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-09-03T12:11:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 flaviaribeiroamaro.pdf: 1610704 bytes, checksum: 0e6077e1d78576a741f2f6e4817cc697 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-03T12:11:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 flaviaribeiroamaro.pdf: 1610704 bytes, checksum: 0e6077e1d78576a741f2f6e4817cc697 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-28 / Para os médiuns os fenômenos mediúnicos conjeturam uma dimensão imaterial, intangível, efêmera, subjetiva e particular, que se constrói e é significada no plano material da realidade objetiva da vida cotidiana. Tais manifestações comunicam códigos simbólicos expressos por uma linguagem sociocultural extremamente rica semanticamente. Parto da hipótese de que uma linguagem supostamente transmitida pela doutrina espírita constitui uma das principais razões pela qual muitos sujeitos justificam sua adesão ao corpo de crenças, valores e preceitos morais baseados nas codificações feitas por Allan Kardec. E, por conseguinte, se sentem identificados com tal cosmovisão compartilhada, que prevê basicamente a possibilidade da vida além da morte, de uma continuidade para a trajetória do espírito através da reencarnação e da comunicação com o espírito dos mortos. A religião Espírita assim como qualquer outra religião é capaz de aferir orientações comportamentais responsáveis por guiar a conduta do indivíduo no cotidiano, fornecendo sentidos e significados imbuídos na construção da realidade dos sujeitos. Para um enquadramento analítico da manifestação mediúnica recorro ao discurso construído por meus interlocutores - os médiuns espíritas- acerca da experiência religiosa da mediunidade. Entendo como relevante a pergunta: o que essa experiência mediúnica significa para eles? A presente pesquisa visa discutir os possíveis sentidos elaborados em torno das práticas mediúnicas na religião Espírita, a partir dos relatos, das experiências e das memórias de vida de médiuns kardecistas da cidade de Juiz de Fora- MG. Para tanto, empreendo uma investigação de caráter qualitativo, elaborado com base em uma etnografia desenvolvida em centros espíritas Kardecistas da cidade, articulada à análise documental e bibliográfica acerca da mística espírita. / For the mediums, the mediumship phenomena conjuncture an immaterial dimension, intangible, ephemeral, subjective and particular, which is built and meant in the material plane of the objective reality of everyday life. Such manifestations communicate symbolic codes expressed by an extremely rich sociocultural language in its semantic ways. I start from the hyphotesis that a language supposedly transmitted by the spiritual doctrine is one of the main reasons why many subjects justify their adherence to the body of beliefs, values and moral principles based on the codifications made by Allan Kardec. And therefore, they feel identified with such shared worldview, which basically foresees the possibility of life beyond death, a continuity to the spirit’s path through reincarnation and the communication with the spirits of the dead. The Spiritualist religion as any other religion is able to assess behavioral guidelines responsible for guiding the conduct of the individual in its daily life, providing senses and meanings imbued with the construction of the reality of the subjects. For an analytical framework of mediumism manifestation, I resort to the discourse constructed by my interlocutors – the spiritual mediums - about the religious experience of mediumship. I consider important the question: what this mediumship experience means to them? This research aims to discuss the possible meanings developed around the mediumship practices in the Spiritualist religion, taken from the reports, experiences and living memories of Kardecists mediums from the city of Juiz de Fora – MG. To this end, I engage a qualitative research, prepared based on an ethnography which was developed in Kardecists spiritual centers of the city, linked to the documentary and literature analysis about the spiritualist mysticism.

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-11-12T13:51:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 3299326 bytes, checksum: 2e6c1aee13b567f777e29f1d5bab2a38 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-11-23T11:08:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 3299326 bytes, checksum: 2e6c1aee13b567f777e29f1d5bab2a38 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-23T11:08:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 3299326 bytes, checksum: 2e6c1aee13b567f777e29f1d5bab2a38 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-08 / O espaço ritual constitui-se num locus sagrado de festa. No palco religioso, o sentimento de reconhecer-se cheio do Espírito Santo ou incorporado pelas Entidades reescreve, no próprio corpo do sujeito, a autenticidade de sua tradição mitológica. Simultaneamente, a experiência religiosa reatualiza o poder dessa tradição. E são várias as formas em que a narrativa mítica emerge, vindo à tona e tornando-se tangível à percepção e à emoção. E, neste sentido, a cultura desempenha um papel fundamental: ela é o elo a promover o encontro entre as verdades da crença e as experiências religiosas. Michel Meslin assinala que a religião só alcança o homem através das mediações culturais de seu tempo. Entre essas também variadas “mediações culturais” está a música, com seus gêneros, ritmos e uma força simbólica capaz de funcionar como chave, abrindo as portas das sensibilidades. Para além dos cânticos – mas a eles conexos –, a experiência do transe ritual é um dispositivo de mediação cultural ainda mais poderoso: um dínamo de emoções liturgicamente sacralizadas. Este sentimento religioso de alegria tem suas bases na estrutura do sistema de crenças, e, assim, até a cantiga que coadjuva e complementa os ritos, consubstancia seu status sagrado. Musicalizando o Sagrado, essa arte expressiva de fé e também de cultura potencializa ainda mais o sentimento social de pertença à comunidade religiosa do indivíduo, que também vê alimentada sua esperança de vida. Este trabalho se envereda na trilha da experiência religiosa, em seus percalços sinuosos. Nesse caminho, a intenção é compreender um pouco o funcionamento das engrenagens simbólicas que conferem sentido às manifestações performáticas vividas por pentecostais e umbandistas, em dois grupos religiosos específicos. E, ao analisar a relação entre a dinâmica ritual desses cultos e a produção de sentidos operada nas linguagens gestuais dos sujeitos da crença, refletimos sobre os diálogos semânticos rituais que, construindo experiências de espiritualidade, reconstroem também experiências de vida. É quando a divergência das cosmovisões sucumbe à convergência dos significados religiosos. / The ritual space is a sacred locus of celebration. In the religious stage, the feeling of being recognized full of the Holy Spirit or incorporated by the Entities rewrites, in the subject's own body, the authenticity of his mythological tradition. Simultaneously, religious experience reactualizes the power of this tradition. And there are several ways in which the mythical narrative emerges, coming to the surface and becoming tangible to perception and emotion. And, in this sense, culture plays a fundamental role: it is the link to promote the meeting between the truths of belief and religious experiences. Michel Meslin points out that religion only reaches man through the cultural mediations of his time. Among these also varied "cultural mediations" is music, with its genres, rhythms and a symbolic force capable of functioning as a key, opening the doors of sensitivities. In addition to the chants - but related to them - the ritual trance experience is an even more powerful device of cultural mediation: a dynamo of liturgically sacralized emotions. This religious feeling of joy has its basis in the structure of the belief system, and thus even the song that helps and complements the rites, consubstantiates its sacred status. Musicalizing the Sacred, this expressive art of faith and also of culture further enhances the social feeling of belonging to the individual's religious community, which also nourishes their hope for life. This work lies in the path of religious experience, in its sinuous mishaps. In this way, the intention is to understand a little the functioning of the symbolic gears that give meaning to the performance manifestations experienced by Pentecostals and Umbandists in two specific religious groups. And when analyzing the relationship between the ritual dynamics of these cults and the production of meanings operated in the gestural languages of the subjects of belief, we reflect on the ritual semantic dialogues that, by constructing experiences of spirituality, also reconfirm, reconstruct life experiences. This is when the divergence of worldviews succumbs to the convergence of religious meanings.

Ce travail vise à explorer la notion d’expérience religieuse dans l’oeuvre de William James (1842-1910). Si cette notion est tout à fait centrale dans les Variétés de l’expérience religieuse (1902), elle joue aussi un rôle très important dans bon nombres d’autres oeuvres, si bien qu’il est possible de dire qu’une grande partie du projet empiriste de James se joue au travers de cette question. En réalité, l’un des principaux problèmes que cet empirisme religieux doit affronter consiste à savoir si ces expériences humaines du divin permettent de faire des affirmations vraies, publiques et objectives au sujet de l’existence d’une forme de conscience supra humaine. Si dans, un premier temps, James développera son pragmatisme de manière à poser un lien entre Dieu et ces expériences religieuses en faisant l’économie d’une explication de type causale, il sera contraint, par la suite, d’élaborer une explication métaphysique de la possibilité de ces expériences, ce qui l’amènera à accepter la thèse panthéiste et panpsychiste d’une compénétration des champs de conscience. L’expérience religieuse apparaît alors, par réaction à une forme explicite d’« inquiétante étrangeté », comme une expérience métaphysique de l’intimité avec l’univers. / This work aims at exploring the concept of religious experience in the work of William James (1842-1910).This notion is not only central in The Varieties of Religious Experience, but it also plays a significant role inmany of his other works so much that it is possible to say that a large part of James’s empiricism is at stakein this issue. One of the main problems that this religious empiricism faces consists in knowing if the human experiences of the divine allow some true, public, objective assertions about the existence of aform of supra human consciousness. If, at first, James developed his pragmatism so as to make a link between God and the human experiences of the divine while avoiding metaphysical explanations of acausal type, later on, he felt the necessity to work out a metaphysical explanation, which lead him to accept the pantheist and panpsychist thesis of a possible interpenetration of the fields of individual consciousness. As a reaction to an explicit form of experience of the “uncaniness or the ordinary”, religious experience thus appears, as a metaphysical experience of intimacy with the universe.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2015-12-04T12:42:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 hermenegildoferreiragiovannoni.pdf: 947447 bytes, checksum: b231d996965f2ee2a2559ae8a430c560 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2015-12-07T03:19:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 hermenegildoferreiragiovannoni.pdf: 947447 bytes, checksum: b231d996965f2ee2a2559ae8a430c560 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-07T03:19:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 hermenegildoferreiragiovannoni.pdf: 947447 bytes, checksum: b231d996965f2ee2a2559ae8a430c560 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta tese apresenta uma pesquisa das relações conceituais entre a psicologia analítica, como formulada originalmente por Jung, e o modelo neurocognitivo do Self proposto por McNamara, com foco nas bases funcionais da experiência religiosa. A partir da psicologia analítica, os principais conceitos analisados envolvem a teoria dos complexos, desde a sua origem nos testes de associação de palavras até a sua formulação mais acabada nos últimos textos de Jung, bem como o papel do símbolo e dos arquétipos e o modo como a libido possibilita os conteúdos psíquicos religiosos. A partir da teoria de McNamara, são investigados os desdobramentos da questão do Self dividido, com uma revisão das suas origens teóricas e uma exposição da relação que o autor constrói entre essa questão e os conhecimentos recentes em genética e evolução, bem como os conceitos de Self executivo e Selves possíveis. Dedica-se especial consideração à maneira como os dois autores interpretam a capacidade transformadora das práticas religiosas para a consciência do indivíduo. Propõem-se, ao final, pontos de convergência entre as duas teorias. / This thesis presents a research of conceptual relations between analytical psychology, as originally formulated by Jung, and the neurocognitive model of Self proposed by McNamara, with focus on the functional basis of religious experience. From analytical psychology, the main concepts analysed involve the theory of complexes, which is traced from its beginnings in word association tests to the well-formed presentation in the last texts of Jung, as well as the role of symbols and archetypes, and the manner through which libido enables religious psychic contents. From the theory of McNamara, it is examined the unfolding of the problem of the divided Self, presenting a review of its theoretical roots and an exposition of the relations that McNamara draws between this problem and recent developments in genetics and evolution, as well as the concepts of executive Self and possible Selves. Particular consideration is devoted to the way both thinkers explain the transformative capacity of religious practices to one’s conscience. At the end, points of converging between both theories are proposed.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-26T10:30:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 787158 bytes, checksum: edb316f02169eb9febc3d9f1549aa621 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-27T10:51:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 787158 bytes, checksum: edb316f02169eb9febc3d9f1549aa621 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-27T10:51:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 valdevinodealbuquerquejunior.pdf: 787158 bytes, checksum: edb316f02169eb9febc3d9f1549aa621 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O culto pentecostal constitui-se num espaço sagrado de festa. Ali, a alegria de sentirse cheio do Espírito Santo reescreve, na experiência do crente, o mito de pentecostes. Mas, ao mesmo tempo, essa alegria reatualiza esse mito. E são várias as formas de se trazer esta narrativa mítica à tona, tornando-a tangível à percepção e à emoção; e, neste sentido, a cultura desempenha um papel fundamental: ela é o elo a promover o encontro entre as verdades da crença e as experiências religiosas. Segundo Michel Meslin, a religião só alcança o homem através das mediações culturais de seu tempo. Entre essas também variadas “mediações culturais” está a música, com seus gêneros, ritmos e uma força simbólica capaz de funcionar como chave, abrindo as portas da emoção. Este sentimento religioso de alegria tem suas bases no sagrado, e, assim, até a música que coadjuva o canto alegre do crente se sacraliza; e, ao musicalizar o sagrado, potencializa ainda mais o sentimento de pertença à comunidade religiosa do indivíduo, que também vê alimentada sua esperança de fé. Este trabalho se envereda na trilha da experiência religiosa, em seus percalços sinuosos. Entendendo que o corinho de fogo, como expressão musical de fé e também de cultura, realiza o papel de lubrificar as engrenagens das manifestações performáticas de algumas denominações pentecostais, influenciando a dinâmica de alguns desses cultos, refletimos sobre as inter-relações entre esses corinhos e a expressão gestual no culto pentecostal. / Pentecostal worship constitutes a sacred space of party. There, the joy of feeling full of the Holy Ghost rewrites, within the experience of the believer, the myth of Pentecost. But at the same time, this joy renews this myth. And there are several ways to bring this mythic narrative up, making it tangible to perception and emotion; and, this way, culture plays a key role: it is the link to promote contact between the truths of belief and religious experiences. According to Michel Meslin, the religion only reaches men through cultural mediations of his time. Among these also varied "cultural mediations" it is the music, with its genres, rhythms and a token force capable of functioning as a key, opening the doors of emotion. This religious feeling of joy has its foundations in the sacred world of religion, and even the music that assists the joyful song of the believer is sanctified, and, becoming the music sacred, further enhances the individual feeling of belonging to the religious community, whose hope of faith is fed. This paper embarks on the religious experience trail and in its meandering mishaps. Understanding that "corinhos de fogo" as a musical expression of faith and also culture performs the role of lubricating the gears of the performing demonstrations of some Pentecostal denominations, influencing the dynamics of some of these services, we reflect on the interrelationships between these choruses and gestural expression in Pentecostal worship.

[pt] A tese aborda criticamente questões conceituais e metodológicas ligadas ao estudo das bases neurais da religiosidade. No intuito de melhor inserir a neuropsicologia da religião em um contexto de estudos interdisciplinares, investigamos, num primeiro momento, as características metodológicas desse tipo de pesquisa, tecendo análises críticas acerca das suas virtudes e limitações. Posteriormente, apresentamos uma hipótese de classificação e uma revisão crítica da produção mais recente no campo. Num terceiro momento, desenvolvemos uma hipótese sobre a importância da prática ritual na evolução de capacidades cognitivas distintivamente humanas. Finalmente, apresentamos o delineamento de um experimento piloto em neurocognição religiosa cuja hipótese de pesquisa articula alguns dos resultados previamente desenvolvidos. / [en] This dissertation critically addresses conceptual and methodological issues related to the study of the neural bases of religiosity. The aim is to promote the neuropsychology of religion in a context of interdisciplinary studies. For this, we first investigate the methodological aspects of this kind of research, presenting critical analyzes about its virtues and limitations. Subsequently, we propose a hypothesis of classification and develop a critical review of the most recent results in the field. In a third study, we develop a hypothesis about the importance of ritual practice in the evolution of distinctively human cognitive abilities. Finally, we design a pilot experiment in religious neurocognition whose research hypothesis articulates some of the previously results.

This essay sheds light on a specific religious reformist within the Islamic tradition. This contemporary reformist is none other than Abd al-Karim Soroush, whose theory on fundamental building blocks within the Islamic tradition, such as revelation and prophethood, has sparked the interests of philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion in general, and Islamic religious tradition in particular. By conducting a content-based analysis of his own work The Expansion of Prophetic Experience: Essays on Historicity, Contingency and Plurality in Religion the essay aims to a) examine his views on revelation and prophethood, b) explore his theory in relation to Islamic jurisprudence and ethics, and c) investigate any legal and ethical problematizations that his theory poses within the Islamic tradition. In an effort to revive the essence of Islam and reform the approach to the Quran and Islamic tradition, Soroush breaks down prophethood into two components: prophetic mission and prophetic experience. According to Soroush, both the prophetic mission and experience are tied to the era in which Muhammad (peace be upon him) operated. Such a contextual approach entails viewing and interpreting the Quran as a canonized book that reflects Muhammad's intuitive experiences and their continuous interaction with the cultural, social, and economic conditions prevalent during his time. By categorizing different aspects of the Quran into essentialism and accidentialism, Soroush argues that traditional legal and ethical derivations belong to the accidental category, which implies that they should not be viewed as static but rather dynamic and subject to reinterpretation in light of the contemporary context. To consider the traditional interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence and ethics as a secondary aspect in relation to the primary aspect of Islam, namely its essence, and to strip jurisprudence of its centrality and authority has both advantages and disadvantages within the Islamic tradition. The advantage may lie in a more rational and accepting approach towards religious pluralism and women's rights. The disadvantage can manifest in challenges related to Muslim identity formation and the arbitrary definition of essential Islam that his theory may entail.

As TPM warrants greater attention in the field of practical theology, this thesis is about the further development of TPM, within Pastoral Theology as well as in its practices. This research explored if more healing possibilities may emerge when TPM is epistemologically positioned in social constructionism and has drawn attention to healing possibilities that narrative practices may open up for TPM. To achieve this, a process of social construction was followed where the narratives of participants' experiences of the practices of TPM were reflected upon. The participants related how and why the practices of TPM influenced the way they narrated their lives. According to their tales the main influencing factor was an authentic encounter with God, where they experienced that He had experientially entered into a conversation with them about the way they constructed their realities. By giving His perspective on their beliefs about memories from their past, He helped them to start processes of reconstructing new preferred life stories. The importance of the role of a faith community as well as that of significant others also became evident. An important contribution of this research is the emphasis that was put on the ‘not-knowing’ position of the facilitator. This is not an authentic TPM-term, but the way the facilitator's role is described, in the TPM guidelines, is similar to what is understood by that term in social constructionist therapy approaches. Throughout the research report I indicated the important role of this position in the helpfulness of TPM. It became clear through the narratives that when the facilitator's knowing entered the Theophostic process, the process was impeded. Closely related to this ‘not-knowing’ position, is the ethical accountability of TPM. I indicated how this position of the facilitator related to the participants' experiences of the facilitator not being judgemental and being respected for who (s)he is. In judging the authenticity of changes experienced by the recipients of TPM, I proposed a process of participatory ethics. / Practical Theology / Thesis (D.Th. (Pastoral Therapy)