THE SACRED AND DEATH IN PANDEMIC TIMES, A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
This work aims to investigate the teaching of philosophy of religion by the means of a class teaching project. For that, it is necessary a bibliographical research about the Sacred and the impact of death in the religious imagination, given the COVID-19 pandemic context. This research has as a starting point the book already in use in schools, and some proposed activities made by the teacher – adapted to the student’s reality of life. Between these, the technique called bricolage – the imagination of post-modernist culture’s complexity and its experimentation in the philosophy of religion – is highlighted, being applied to the concept of Sacred. The philosophical bases are, inter alia, given by Savian Filho (2016), who lays the religious experience as a source of human sense. This way, the research aims to show the constant challenge to what is “sacred” and its “numinosity”, given the impact of death during a pandemic crisis – and the implications on the young modern minds. With this work, it is expected to stimulate the students to the philosophic exercise by the means of what is sacred in disastrous situations, using the internal and existential uneasiness as a starting point for the teaching of philosophy.