The right to spiritual development and the overcoming of violence against children and adolescents.

Abstract

This article is the partial result of the survey “The school moral formation as  a socio-analytic and political-pedagogical mediation among the public policies for childhood and adolescence”. Its objective is to question the right to the spiritual development foreseen by the Statute of Children and Adolescents. The methodology consists of the  contraposition, on one hand, of the spirituality with the violence that victimizes children and adolescents from the biblical traditions up to  the contemporary scientific research; on the other hand, the second part of the article defines spirituality as an intensifying force of resilience and thereby to conclude that spiritual development must be assured for children and adolescents through the pedagogical intervention and the scientific specialized knowledge, respectively, of the teachers and the researchers of  the Religious Education in the compulsory Basic Education.