Análise da produção científica em Ciências das Religiões da UFPB: um estudo comparativo

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the scientific production of the Postgraduate Program in Religious Science (PPGCR), Federal University of Paraiba - UFPB, specifically of the Masters, with a focus on the first two classes (T1 and T2), to compare it with the production of other Brazilian universities that develop research in this field studies, with emphasis in the dissertations presented in 2009 and 2010, completion time of those mentioned classes of this University. It is a documentary study, descriptive, for which comparative analysis referred to the national catalog of theses and dissertations, that has provided 102 papers of five universities of recognized quality: Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF, Catholic University of Pernambuco - UNICAP, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo - PUC / SP, Methodist University of Sao Paulo - UMESP- and Mackenzie Presbyterian University - UPM. The results show that this field studies has attracted professionals from different fields of knowledge, most of them males. In the works analysis, we note some difficulty in the titles elaboration because of the extent and misuse of punctuation marks, it is also evident a variety of themes discussed and focused areas, which perhaps is justified by the researchers formation. The exploratory research was the most applied and, it was most frequently used bibliographic procedures, documentary and field research. We conclude that this information mapping can contribute to the good progress of the program and, consequently, with the proposal of the Religious Education in schools.