Religious pluralism and identity: the conceptions of science, truth and religious tolerance/intolerance and the relationships established by Pernambuco's kardecists with the followers of other religions

• Main Author: Aurenéa Maria de Oliveira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pelotas 2008-06-01
• Series: Pensamento Plural
• Subjects: Identity; tolerance; religious in tolerance; pluralism; differences
• Online Access: http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3751/3039

This article seeks to analyze, briefly, how the conception of the religious truth of Pernambuco’s kardecists, based in the modern science canons, justifies between them the development of difficult relationships with the followers of the other religions, in a time that the Catholic religion hegemony is being broken, making a plural religious situation. That way, methodologically, we tried to accomplish the exposition in a way that it was possible to intersect a discussion about the construction of the modern identity’s concept that didn’t take in consideration the difference of the Other, to a discussion on the understanding that the tolerance also had in the modernity, starting from an Eurocentric perspective. In the end, we articulate identity concepts of truth and tolerance, elaborated in the modernity time, to the spiritualistic practice, observing that this practice, when being influenced by those definitions, revealed itself very difficult on the part of the kardecists to know how to treat with respect other religious difference.