Religião em perspectiva: uma abertura compreensiva a partir de Rubem Alves

Abstract

In light of the ever-renewed inquiry into what religion is, this writing aims to offer an image of this concept by understanding of the religious as an object with its own dignity, a reality from which we are not alienated. To this end, the discursive kaleidoscope Rubem Alves is mobilized, provoking the perspectival emergence of the religious object in its multidimensional portrait, without concealing possible ambiguities. Without intending to be exhaustive, this is an interested engagement with the textures of the aforementioned author, in which analytical components are articulated with the poetic in the course of the anthropophagic method, within a creative exercise in the production of science, in which an opening to religion is outlined that is neither stigmatized nor reductive, but rather comprehensive. The text is structured in four parts, with the progressive presentation of some possible conceptions of religion in the inclusive perspectivism of Rubem Alves. In this movement, religion is first framed as the presence of an absence. It is then unfolded as a language of expressive-desiderative character. Composing a third facet, religion appears, then, in its experiential dynamics, under the focus of bodily metamorphoses. Finally, through the mysticism of enchantment, access is sought to a kind of zone of intersection among the other dimensions of religion.