Abstract

SEPULVEDA ROMERO, Luis Vicente  and  SALDARRIAGA VELEZ, Óscar de Jesús. Literature review of investigative trajectories on school religious education in Hispanic America (1991-2020). Franciscanum [online]. 2022, vol.64, n.177, pp.12-12.  Epub Oct 10, 2022. ISSN 0120-1468.  https://doi.org/10.21500/01201468.5766.

This research work makes a review of the academic production which has been published about scholar religious education (SRE) since 1991 to 2020. The SRE has been present in the educational systems of the Hispanic America countries from the first evangelization since colonial times and it has been changing purposes, methods and formats. It requires to identify historical changes in the context and the purposes, as well as the different concerns of its educational actors in order to understand its role in today's school. The research makes a general review of the publications of the region, highlighting the Colombian, Argentine, Mexican and Uruguayan cases.

The methodology uses a content analysis that identifies three levels of text analysis: over ground, analytical, and interpretative. The coding of the documents was carried out with the Atlas-ti program version 8.4. The interest of Hispanic-American researchers was classified into five topics: 1) legal analysis; 2) historiographic studies; 3) research from an intercultural perspective; 4) analysis of the curricula and the teacher's pedagogical practice; and, 5) epistemological foundation of the SRE.

The review allows to conclude that the type of scholar religious education of each country in Hispanic America is determined by the understanding of secularism that each country has in its constitutional order and by the complex historical trajectories of Church- State relations in its consolidation as a nation. Besides, the documents reveal the diversity of approaches and concerns regarding the need - or not - of a theologically and pedagogically based religious education, for a clearly diverse and plural religious and cultural context in which there are young people and adolescents who attend the school, some of them searching their identity and sense of life.

Keywords : Scholar Religious Education; Public Education; Secularism; Religious Freedom; Religious Pluralism.

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