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In this article, I intend to give a brief retrospective of the previous symposia in order to show the emphasis and the thematic progression that has been guiding these meetings among Brazilian researchers under the coordination of the Group of Studies and Post- -religious Studies - Postmodernity and religion affiliated to the Program of Post-graduate Studies in Religion Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, and Portugal, under the coordination of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Portuguese Catholic University, Campus de Braga. I would like to briefly point out the postmodern perspective in the contemporary context Finally, as a contribution to the master line of the V Symposium – whose proposal is to focus on the religious phenomenon as an experience that goes beyond the disjunctive perspective between rationality and affectivity, mind and text, entering into the psychosomatic of the religious and the communities of affection – I will bring brief reflections from two philosophers considered postmodern, beginning with the most famous, Jacques Derrida, who in the texts will explore new ways of approaching the experiences of the divine in contemporary times using metaphorical images whose mind or intention surpasses the established religious experiences by the revelations contained in the rationalizing texts enshrined in ontotheology and open horizons for the advent of justice and fraternity. On the other hand, the perspective of affective communities can be supported by Gianni Vattimo’s proposal, which deconstructs the violence of metaphysical thought by proposing a new rationality based on the “pensiero debole” (fragile thinking), which in Christian theology is based on kenosis from the incarnation of the “Son of Man” and, in philosophy, retakes the nihilism of Nietzsche proposing a future of religion that goes beyond the rationality of science heiress of the Enlightenment, abstract, consumerist, selfish and alien to the body and claims of affectivity.

This article proposes an interpretive approach from the analytics Max Horkheimer - specifically the concept of subjective reason - the religious experience in postmodernity, lived under the affection of communities.Under the dynamic of affection communities, religious experience in contemporary structure can no longer from an identification guided by a doctrinal definition or a faith conceived as theological truth of expression or in an adherence to a religion as a tradition. The religious community will be based, as a structuring element the dimension of affective identification. The affection, which appears and stands as amalgamates the postmodern religious experience, you may be sure to be an expression of a subjective rationality, instrumentalize the experience of religion.

The purpose of this brief work is to (re) read what happened in Fatima (chapter 3) in the light of the deepening (subchapter 2. 2.) of the essential elements of the theses of "Visionen und Prophezeiungen" (subchapter 2. 1.) of Karl Rahner. In particular, what it refers to in respect of: spiritual experiences (sub-chapter 1. 1.); of the spiritual senses (subchapter 1. 2.); and the verbal translation of spiritual experiences (subchapter 1. 3.). For this purpose we will study the main texts of Rahner that address these last three themes, as well as "Visionen und Prophezeiungen" and, of course, the "Critical Documentation of Fatima" that has been published since 1992.

Catholic sanctuaries, especially in Portugal's rural areas, play an important role in preserving the faith of the people and, above all, in the well-being of the people living in these areas. In fact, the promises made in these shrines and the journeys to these places for prayer are a balm for the various difficulties encountered in everyday life at the most diverse levels of daily life. The maintenance of these sanctuaries with vitality is, however, a challenge for the population and for the Catholic Church, especially due to the loss of population that has occurred in many Portuguese areas of the interior. In this context, the purpose of this text is to analyze the different interconnections of Catholic shrines in different parts of the world, highlighting the origins and importance of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Miracles in Pindelo dos Milagres (São Pedro do Sul).

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This article intends to provide some arguments in favor of the teaching of the religion in the public schools, in the context of the denominated secular states. In this sense, any kind of confessional argument is avoided, including the appeal to agreements between states and churches. Rather, a foundation is sought in the various dimensions of the educational process itself. In this sense, religious education would, in the first place, develop the (self) critical spirit of the students, in relation to their religious or non religious choice; secondly, it would seek to explore the anthropological conceptions that result from religious traditions, and which eventually determine certain ethical and political choices of societies; finally, religious teaching would develop in students the sense of mystery, analogous to the sense of poetics, which is fundamental to a more complete conception of the human. The practical way of articulating these arguments with the current working scheme of the teaching of religion remains an open challenge.

The importance and use of digital tools in communication and training processes is increasingly undeniable. In fact, the Web offers a range of resources / tools that support the work of educators in order to promote, in practice, communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. What happens in the most diverse areas of knowledge also extends to classes of Moral and Religious Catholic Education (EMRC), through the use of text addition, audio, image and video tools. Among the many examples of resources and content with clear, cognitively challenging pedagogical intentions. Of the many possible examples, we can highlight WebQuest “Ecology and Values”, the digital game “Islam is fun - Pilgrimage to Mecca” and the “Religions” website.

Contemporary society is strongly influenced by the Internet, which challenges cultural transmission and the education of the faith. This article seeks to discuss the potential of the Web for Christian education, especially in the relation between the image and the text in the construction of the Christian identity.

From the text which is considered as the founding and uniting element of all Christian mysticism, Eph 3:16-20, this essay deals with the differences between Western Christian mysticism and Eastern Christian mysticism, as resulting from the relationship of mutual implication, at times not only distinct but even diametrically opposed, between mysticism and beauty in those two contexts. From here, a minimal reflection has been attempted on what each one of these two realities can enlighten about the nature of the other one.

Cet article se propose d’étudier le(s) discours de l’église catholique portugaise à l’égard de l’administration des sacrements de passage (comme le baptême et l’extrême- -onction) aux nouveau-nés monstrueux pendant le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècles. Nous examinerons aussi la façon dont cette question morale est traitée dans les discours savants européens de la même période. Nous montrerons que même si certains discours religieux traitent des monstres et expliquent les procédures à suivre pour l’administration des sacrements dans ces cas particuliers, la majorité des discours religieux évitent cette problématique.

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