Religious instruction by amusement in St. Augustine - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v32i2.10429
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Education, medieval history, catholic churchAbstract
St. Augustine, the author of several books, including Instruction for catechumens, analyzed in current essay, bases his arguments on the presupposition that all human beings are on a pilgrimage towards the Heavenly Jerusalem. In the book reviewed in the present essay, Augustine shows how the catechist should use mirth and amusement as factors that facilitate the teaching of the Christian religion to people who desire to partake of the latter. Such process shows the manner amusement has a fundamentally important logic with regard to the functioning of social and cultural practices of a particular group within a given historical moment. Actually it is a tool for practical activities on several issues, especially pedagogical ones.
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