Resumo:
This research has investigated the relations between literature and religiosity
elaborated from the living experience of an elderly students group with different
religious beliefs, having as basis the reading and interpretation of the work Don
Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. What motivated this investigation
movements were the discussions on the religious interculturality, that occurred
during the realization of literary saraus, in which selected passages from
Cervantian work were read and interpreted (that approached the illiteracy issue
in adulthood, the desire of knowing and the religious interculturality) by the
elderly literacy group, whose age ranged between 60 and 83 years old, in a
municipal school in Porto Alegre, in 2006. Here, three action scopes were
articulated so that the elderly were able to understand the construction of their
identity and their role in the social inclusion process. The first scope has been
constituted through a formal educational space represented by the school. The
second scope has been constituted through a public space represented by the
square. The third action scope, central element of this dissertation, has been the
religion sphere, represented by different forms of religiosity in their multiple ways
of manifestation. These three scopes have been conjugated through a
pedagogical proposal, centered in the reading and interpretation of Cervantes
book. This investigation allowed us to ascertain the relevance of religiosity in
research subjects life, as well as the importance of sharing experiences and
narratives among those who have proposed to sit at the table of dialogue, with
the mediation of literary texts, in which the religious interculturality has been
discussed.
