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In ARDA's 2020 study, Spiritists were the second-largest religion practiced among the Brazilian population at 4.83%. [10] Other religions including the Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Chinese folk religions, Afro-Brazilian religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and new religious movements made up 1.37% of the population in the same study.
The prominence of Peranakan Chinese culture, however, has led to the common elision whereby 'Peranakan' may simply be taken to refer to the Peranakan Chinese, i.e. the culturally unique descendants of the earliest Chinese settlers in the Malay Archipelago, as opposed to the other smaller groups that also justifiably call themselves 'peranakan'.
Since 1970, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has included sem religião (Portuguese for no religion) as a self-description option in their decennial census, for people who do not consider themselves members of any specific religion, including non-affiliated theists and deists. In the 2010 census, 8.0% of the population ...
Brazil religion stubs (3 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Religion in Brazil" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect ...
Roman Catholicism was the dominant religion in early 20th-century Brazil, but sizeable minorities practiced Afro-Brazilian traditions or Spiritism, a French version of Spiritualism developed by Allan Kardec. Around the 1920s, various groups may have been combining Spiritist and Afro-Brazilian practices, forming the basis of Umbanda.
Many Afro-Brazilian religions are called Macumba, [5] but generally macumba is a vague word for any religion from Africa. [6] Tambor de Mina is a highly syncretic religious tradition, combining cultural elements of colonial Brazil and Portuguese culture with elements of the religious culture of the first Brazilian African slaves. [7]
Sikhism is a minority religion in South America, which is estimated to be less than 0.01% of the total continent's population.. While the Sikh community in Argentina has been established since the early 20th century, its growth in South America has been relatively modest compared to the broader Sikh diaspora in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.
A range of Afro-Brazilian religions emerged in Brazil, often labelled together under the term Macumba, which often carried negative connotations. Historically, the term Quimbanda has been used by practitioners of Umbanda, a religion established in Brazil during the 1920s, to characterise the religious practices that they opposed. Quimbanda thus ...