Conselho Federal de Psicologia e Regionais do Nordeste e suas implicações na produção, manutenção e combate ao racismo religioso contra religiões de matrizes africanas

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the Psychology Boards System and its involvement in the production, maintenance, and fight against religious racism against religions of African origin. It was from the perception of the ethnic, racial and religious plurality existing in Brazil and of the development of Brazilian psychology as a science and profession, which had in its inception elements and techniques inherited from a Eurocentric and elitist model, that the present research was conceived. This study aims to investigate how the Psychology Boards System produces, promotes or combats religious racism in its public manifestations, documents, and technical guidelines. For its scope, three specific objectives were proposed: a) Identifying in which moments the Psychology Councils System manifested itself on religious racism or threat to religious freedom. b) Analyzing how the Psychology Councils System deals with and is involved with cases of religious racism. c) Investigating how the Psychology Boards System equips professionals to act on demands involving religious racism. For the selection of analysis material for this research, data collection was carried out on the websites of the Federal Psychology Board (CFP) and Regional Psychology Boards (CRPs) in the Northeast region of Brazil. After this data collection, the materials were organized into five categories of analysis, namely: a) Public Safety; b) Racism; c) Public Health; d) Culture and Traditional Peoples; e) Secularism and Religious Freedom. From the research and analysis, it was possible to perceive that in most of the publications, while recognizing that violence against people and groups of religions of African matrices have, at their root, racism, still use the term “religious intolerance”, and that even though the Psychology Boards System values the secularism of the State and of Psychology itself as a science and profession as well as the guarantee of religious freedom, it has not yet developed technical norms for specific guidance to deal with this type of psychological violence (in addition to physical, assets, etc.). It was also possible to notice that most of the publications deal with event promotion, and that almost half of the CRPs analyzed have not published materials on religious racism nor religions of African origin. Furthermore, in the publications in which these two themes appear, they are brought up in a very brief, superficial, and incipient manner.