Desenvolvimento de crianças sob influência dos contextos sociais e da religiosidade.

The article analyses, based on psychodynamic psychology and social anthropology, the development of children under the influence of social and religious contexts in order to understand how environmental context and emotional support influence development. This qualitative study uses semi-structured interviews, observations, field journal. Five children aged five to six years, parents, caregivers and teachers participated. The results were organized by content analysis and showed a circulation crossed by neighborhood violence and religious influence of families the social skills of children. It is concluded that the circumstances of the social context which generated fear and insecurity in parents of the children, and religious practice of caregivers were significant to the emotional development.