This is the title of the article by Leila Linhares Barsted in the book Religion and Democracy in Europe and Brazil, organized by Bernardo Sorj and Sérgio Fausto, and launched this year by the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation.
The book brings to public debate the relations between religion and democracy, based on three themes: education, reproductive rights, and religious freedom, with texts about both Europe and Brazil.
Leila Linhares Barsted, in the article FAMILY, SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION A FIELD IN DISPUTE seeks to analyze the configurations about family, sexuality and reproduction in Brazil from the State and religious discourses in different historical contexts. State and church articulate or separate themselves in the production of hegemonic norms of behavior and values that concern not only the control of bodies but also the control of the patrimony, control of political power and symbolic power. Religious norms and values act as instances of regulation and as pedagogical mechanisms producing common feelings, even if these feelings and values contradict the practices of individuals and groups in society.
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