Object of Religious Education: an identity

Changing the design of religious teaching demanded a rethinking of the subject matter of this curricular component, since the second half of the nineties of the twentieth century researchers seeking to systematize this object, from a qualitative analytical historical document to identify the routing of construction identity of scientific knowledge in this area of knowledge. Were used for such studies Beninca, Costella, Junqueira, Schock and Turozzi for identifying this historical route of the formation of the object of religious education in the Brazilian scene.