TY - JOUR
AU1 - Stern, Fábio
AU2 - Costa, Matheus
AB - Int J Lat Am Relig (2018) 2:160–163 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-018-0035-8 NEWS AND REPORTS Interview with Suellen de Fátima Pereira Bahia and Anderson Ferreira Costa, from Pará Association for Scholars of Religion (Brazil) 1 1 Fábio L. Stern & Matheus Oliva da Costa Published online: 16 January 2018 # Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 Associations for the study of religion (Religionswissenschaft) normally are concerned with the development of research on religions. This is a fact internationally observed in the history of the discipline, revealing its almost exclusively academic bias. In northern Brazil, however, the Pará Association for Scholars of Religion (or BACREPA,^ the Portuguese acronym) presents another perspective. In Brazil, the undergraduate courses in the study of religion were created to supply the demand for docents to teach religious education in public schools. This demand was created by a change in the religious education conception of Brazil, which now seeks distance from the catechetical and proselytizing origins of this school subject. Soon after the creation of the Pará under- graduate course in the study of religion, Pará scholars of religion noticed the need to unite themselves through a formal association to promote their careers and guarantee their jobs. 
TI - Interview with Suellen de Fátima Pereira Bahia and Anderson Ferreira Costa, from Pará Association for Scholars of Religion (Brazil)
JF - International Journal of Latin American Religions
DO - 10.1007/s41603-018-0035-8
DA - 2018-01-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/interview-with-suellen-de-f-tima-pereira-bahia-and-anderson-ferreira-hU4tvIjIpk
SP - 160
EP - 163
VL - 2
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -