The Religion Of Brazil In The 21st Century

Looking around the world there are so many different kinds of cultures and subcultures. There is no way to completely understand all of them. But looking at pieces of a culture can help us better understand the culture as a whole. There are many parts of cultures that are hard to understand, especially when it seems like their values are different from our own. But taking what I know to be true in the American culture, I can use it to understand a few aspects of the Brazilian culture which differ from my own. Some of Brazilian’s cultural values that differ from the American culture include communication, cleanliness, and views on vacations.

The origin of Afro Brazilian religions is traced back to the Atlantic slave trade that took place in the 16th century . Portuguese people captured individuals from Bantu tribes and the other West African communities. The slave trade involved the transfer of these people to Brazil, where they were sold as slaves. The interaction of slaves from different cultural and religious backgrounds led to the development of the Afro Brazilian religions that consequently spread all over Brazil. The religions did not; however, develop at once since they faced opposition from the then government that recognized the Roman Catholic as the only religion in Brazil. Attempts by Africans to worship in their own culture were counteracted until in 1824 when the

Throughout this chapter there were eight major woman-centered religions discussed. Afro-Brazilian Religions; which seems to incorporate elements of Amerindian religions, African tribal religions, Catholicism, and Kardecism. Public rituals in which a female medium would be possessed by spirits was a main feature of this religion. Black Carib Religion; This religion had some of the same main features as Afro-Brazilian religions such as communicating with spirits and instead of female mediums contacting the spirits in this case the older women would be the spiritual leaders. A majority of Black Caribs are Roman Catholics as well. The next religion discussed was the Burmese Nat Religion; they have a lot of the same beliefs as the previous two religions. Most rituals were preformed by women and almost all of the shamans are women. Burmese Nat Religions coexists with Buddhist Practices. Christian Science was created by Mary Baker Eddy in the 1800s. They basically believe that self healing happens after a balance of prayer and study. This religion in the most different so far. It doesn’t seem to have the same spiritual beliefs and rituals. Korean Household Religion is where Korean women give up offerings for the well being of their homes to the gods. They also call upon female shamans for advice. I’ve noticed that so far, Women are expected to grow spiritually through themselves and they rely on other women for guidance. I wonder why men and women can grow in spirituality together?

Much like the U.S., Brazilian culture is extremely diverse. Brazil’s current population of 190 million represents various nationalities from European to African (Country Facts). Brazil has an extremely diverse culture with some common pervasive threads that grouped together give Brazil a national identity.

Brazil is larger and better than the film rundown staring the Rock and Sean William Scott in 2003 portrays. They showed part of the land, but the land is so large that it covers the majority of South America. Argentina is one of the many places to border Brazil as well as the Atlantic Ocean. Well, to go with all of this land that they have population and it is through the roof. Southern Brazil is one of the most populated areas it is just behind Tokyo. It is more populated than most of Latin America and accounts for most of the Latina community. This is interesting considering that approximately 8000 years ago people were spotted here. Living like nomads, Asians are among the first traceable humans. They claimed to have been there in search

ver time, human development and distribution can be drastically changed and differed according to human and environmental factors. This has very much been the case in Brazil. Over the course of many years major cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have seen a significant increase in population density, but the creation of Brasilia and government funding of northern cities such as Manaus has also caused an evident shift in population distribution. This change has been created as a result of increase in government funding in projects such as urbanization of northern cities, job opportunities, harsh physical features and both internal and external migration.

Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, although people speak a variety of other languages. Some of the other languages spoken in Brazil are German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean, along with 195 indigenous languages and some Baltic languages as well. There are many religions represented in Brazil including Protestant, Methodist, Episcopal, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Jehovah’s Witness, Shinto, Rastafarian, Candomble and Umbanda. Though there are many religions the most prominent in the country is Roman Catholic. “Since the Portuguese colonized Brazil in the 16th century, it has been overwhelmingly Catholic. And today Brazil has more Roman Catholics than any other country in the world.” ("Brazil," 2004)

Esau and Jacob by Joaquim Machado de Assis portrays the tumultuous relationship between twin brothers, Pedro and Paulo, during the late nineteenth century; the twins symbolize the Brazilian political struggles during the transition from a monarchy to a republic. The brothers are emblematically born in 1870, “at the end of the Paraguayan War, a time when the Brazilian political elite split between conservatives and reformers” (xiii). The brothers fight; their most contentious arguments regard politics. Paulo is a republican and Pedro is a monarchist. The only commonalities the twins have are their love for their mother, Natividade, and their courtship of Flora. As an allegory, Natividade represents the old nation of

Brazil is the largest country in South America in both population and size. Being such a large country brings many different people together making Brazil to be diverse. The culture of Brazil consists of “cultures of the indigenous Indians, Africans, and Portuguese have together formed the modern Brazilian way of life. The Portuguese culture is by far the dominant of these influences; from it Brazilians acquired their language, main religion, and most of their customs” (Burns, 2018). Brazil happens to be the only Portuguese speaking country in both North and South America. Portugal was the European nation that colonized Brazil back in the 1700’s (Meyer, 2010). Having ties from three separate cultures all coming into one proves Brazil's culture is unique, but the culture varies depending on where a person lives.

Brazil has all sorts of different religions within its states. However Brazil's dominant religion is Christianity with 73.6% of the country as Christians. The other religions found are, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/Voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, and none 7.4% . Brazil has a richly spiritual society formed from the meeting of the Roman Catholic Church, so therefore it is an open country for practicing any religion. Although Brazil has a spiritual society, some people choose to believe in nothing, which Brazil is completely fine with. One of the biggest churches in Brazil is the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia. This church is notable for its unique shape which was created to resemble a pair of hands facing upwards

Brazil nowadays is considered to be the world leader in Freedom of Religion. Due to the diversity of its heritage, this country boasts a vast of religious moral beliefs and affiliations As Brazil was forming its cultural identity and immigrants started to arrive, new religious patterns have begun to be developed. Apart from the Portuguese, Brazil was also firmly colonized by Africans. These populations brought their customs and beliefs that

The colonial government in Brazil try to maintain order in the African community by creating a policy of encouraging the formation of Catholic Brotherhood. Expecting to elevate the Christianity virtue and to provide a charitable activity. For the Africans was a space to explore their identity and practice their customs. The ecclesiastics were tolerant about the dancing a singing of brotherhood because they demonstrated a better behavior in the campus, with less tendency of escaping. Other speculated that these dances make the slaves more interest in reproductive activities. On the other hand, in other cities were the tolerance was less common like in the case of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, slaves were seeing dancing the batuque , could bring

Religions are freely nowadays practiced in South America, Brazil. The dominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, which is composed of Roman Catholic that is about seventy percent of the people in Brazil and Protestants that is twenty-two percent protestant according to 2010 census (Liu, 2013). The Settlement of Portuguese in Brazil was jointed with the Catholic church. Antônio Vieira a settler, whose interpretations of Brazil were based on the premise that “the

Here are some interesting Brazil facts: Around ninety percent of this population identifies with some sort of religion,  making it more religiously inclined than any other South American country.   Only around 1% of its population do not believe in a God, or a supreme being in some form or

Six months ago, my boss Josh, told me that I had been promoted and would be the manager of the new company that Maxwell Inc. have expanded, in Brazil. At that time, I was not so keen at first, but he told me to genuinely think about it, sternly might I add.