IV Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social

Abstract

TAVARES, Ezaques da Silva and SOUZA NETO, João Clemente de. Experiência religiosa cristã e transformação social. In Proceedings of the 4th. Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social IV Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social, 2012, São Paulo (SP, Brazil) [online]. 2012 [cited 19 April 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000092012000100026&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

This work aims to establish the possible relations between Christian Religious Experience and Social Transformation. For this, use the methodology of the Oral History of Life (Focus on the type), seeking to understand the relationship between the work performed by Father Jaime Crowe, SSP and Social Change has been happening in Jardim Angela - South Side neighborhood of the City of Sao Paulo - in the last 25 years. It is intended, with this research to understand how the experience of God that Father Jaime made ​​and makes the drives in the struggle to improve the lives of that population. Will be used for such reflection the concept of God and Faith from the liberation theology that says God is the ally of the poor and suffering and therefore have done with this God a real experience, the person will require a concrete commitment in favor of life, especially in those areas where it is being neglected or destroyed. It will also be used the concept of Social Transformation used by Social Pedagogy which states that it is the product of an education that aims, above all, the rescue of human dignity. In Life Story of Father Jaime Crowe, in the last 25 years, there will be the intersection of these knowledge areas, namely: Theology and Pedagogy.

Keywords : Religious Experience; Social Transformation; Theology and Pedagogy.