RELIGIÕES DE MATRIZES AFRICANAS: $b da intolerância à fé

Abstract

This study aims to identify the main African religious manifestations and their representativeness in the cultural formation of the Brazilian identity. To discuss the intolerance that practitioners and adepts suffer for exercising the faith, is also one of the proposals that integrate the research. Brought to the blacks who had been enslaved to Brazil in the sixteenth century, African religious practices were not accepted by the Portuguese colony. The precarious conditions and obligatory Catholicism obliged the slaves to practice the religious rituals hidden from the senhores de engenho in the senzalas and bushes, a fact that contributed to the cults being carried out on the margins of society. The religions of African matrices exert great influence in different social segments and their values were imbued in the behavior of the Brazilian, having seen the influences that are present in the cooking, music and parties like the carnival. It was only in the twentieth century that African religious manifestations were accepted and celebrated democratically. The legalization of worship was important in several aspects and contributed to the spread of religions in Brazil, but still in the XXI century, it is possible to observe the intolerance afflicted in relation to doctrine and practitioners