Dom Bosco: a aventura de um líder religioso. Sua ação socioeducativa inovadora num contexto de revoluções

Abstract

This thesis presents Don Bosco as a Catholic religious leader from Italy, in the XIX century, and shows the social, political, and religious changes he set into effect. To achieve our goals, we started with his humble upbringing as a peasant and follow him through his adventurous life ending with the fulfillment of his dream as an educator of the youth. From a political perspective, we aim to show his importance in the religious and political area, as he was a mediator between the liberal state and the church during the Italian unification period. During this time, he developed a preventative system which integrated the reason and religion, using the goodness in response to the growing abandonment of the youth in Turin. Using the Oratory methodology, promoting youth protagonism, he implemented an integrated system where he created a formative model uniting the professional, educational and religious fields. With the creation of classes and vocational schools, it was possible for the permanence of the Church secularization, joining religion and technology. The proposed research objective and the achieved results indicate the importance of this theme for the religious science field, and also, how the preventative system actions of this religious leader can continue being a reference to educate and evangelize, in the context of social injustice and religious diversity