EDUCATION AND RELIGION - THE SACRED NARRATIVE OF A BLIND WOMAN - THE BIBLE FOR THE BLIND PROJECT OF THE BRAZILIAN BIBLICAL SOCIETY

Abstract

Narratives describe our story and what we are. This paper presents a woman´s account on her life story. This account could be like any other account. Yet, it describes a blind woman´s trajectory and her struggle to cross the social inclusion intricate ground. The narrative is marked by her quest for autonomy to read the Holy Bible. During this journey, conflicts arise from religious and genre prejudice. Her narrative is intertwined with the Bible for the Blind Project from the story of the Brazilian Biblical Society. Hence, this article discusses the storyline between memory, history and identity of a woman, Paula França, which fuses itself with the origin and scope of this project. The narrator used her visual impartment as a fighting milestone on her quest for religious inclusion. To know her story is to acknowledge the plot of prejudice experienced by people with special educational needs. We used description and narrative analysis within the subjectivity plot, in which passion and faith merge in the field of religious utopia.