Chamados por Deus? Entre luzes e sombras: motivações para a vida religiosa e/ou sacerdotal na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This study search to apprehend the motivations for religious life and/or ministerial life in the contemporary world, especially at this moment that catholicism is diclining in Brazil. In opposition to fall the percentage of the catholics in Brazil, the number of diocesan priest and religious priest has grown continuously in the country last years. Based on discussions and problematization about relationship between religion and modernity , this study has as main purpose identify motivations and dispositions for man entering religious life or ministerial life, mapping their trajectories (personal and religious), their perceptions and representations about the Catholic Church and dilemmas of consecrated life. This qualitative and comparative study between religious and diocesans priest intend to demarcate similarities and differences concerning motivations and dipositions, practice, perceptions and representations about The Catholic Church as for example rising to Pope Francis, in addition to search understanding as experience the final vows and draw up dimension affective and sexual and forging their presbiteral identity. This research indicates also perceptions of the subjects about two most important current of catholicism: The Renewal Carismatic Catholic and Libertation Theology, analysing how this affiliations have had significant influence on practice and religious choice of priest.