The Interdisciplinary Relations in Sciences of Religions

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Elisa Pereira Gonsalves Possebon
Fabricio Possebon

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The article presents a reflection, in the academic environment, on interdisciplinary relations, which are distinct from disciplinarity and multidisciplinarity, these already well established. To do so, it understands the discipline as a specific field of knowledge in theoretical and methodological terms, placing interdisciplinarity as a response to the limitations imposed by disciplinary specialization. Based on a methodology that uses the bibliographic review as a central element, it concludes that the vocation of the field of knowledge of the Sciences of Religions for interdisciplinarity is given by the theoretical and organizational disposition and possibility of researchers, from different areas of knowledge, to share a same academic space. It highlights the identity of the Sciences of Religions as a discipline, and refers to the importance of interdisciplinary dialogues for the production of new knowledge. Finally it recalls the pioneering work of Max Muller, considered one of the founders of the area of Sciences of Religions, whose method he proposed, called philological, gives clues to the application of the concept of interdisciplinarity.

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POSSEBON, Elisa Pereira Gonsalves; POSSEBON, Fabricio. The Interdisciplinary Relations in Sciences of Religions. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 18, n. 57, p. 1252, 2020. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2020v18n57p1252. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/20261. Acesso em: 14 aug. 2025.
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Elisa Pereira Gonsalves Possebon, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Doutora em Educação pela UniversidadeMetodista de Piracicaba. Professora Titular do Centro de Educação da UFPB onde integra o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões. Atua na linha de pesquisa Espiritualidade e Saúde. Coordena o Núcleo de Educação Emocional do CE/UFPB.

Fabricio Possebon, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Professor Doutor do Centro de Educação da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, onde integra o Programa de Ciências das Religiões. Atua na linha de pesquisa Espiritualidade e Saúde. Atualmente exerce a função de coordenador do PPGCR. Integra o Núcleo de Educação Emocional do CE/UFPB.