Research indicates that 44% of Brazilians have two religions. Official data from the Brazilian census indicate that 1,011,507 Brazilians have two religions or follow a syncretic religion. This is in part due to many Brazilian people having parents from different cultures.Ribeiro da Fonseca, Dantas.As raízes do sincretismo religioso afro-brasileiro, https://periodicos.unir.br/index.php/linguaviva/article/view/567, Revista Língua Viva, Guajará-Mirim/RO, Vol. 2, N. 1, p.96-136, jul./dez. 2012
Many Afro-Brazilian religions are called Macumba,Hayes, Kelly E. (2007). "Black Magic and the Academy: Macumba and Afro-Brazilian "Orthodoxies"". History of Religions. pp. 283–31. but generally macumba is a vague word for any religion from Africa. 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.Ferretti, Mundicarmo (2014-12-01). "Brinquedo de Cura in Terreiro de Mina". Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (59): 57–78. doi:10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i59p57-78. ISSN 0020-3874. Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that mixes African beliefs with Catholic art and visuals. Many criticize that candomble is considered a syncretic religion, arguing that slaves needed to adopt Catholic elements so as not to be reprimanded by slave owners.OLIVEIRA RIBEIRO, Josenilda. SINCRETISMO RELIGIOSO NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE HISTÓRICA DAS TRANSFORMAÇÕES NO CATOLICISMO, EVANGELISMO, CANDOMBLÉ E ESPIRITISMO.Work in Social Service by Federal University of Pernambuco
Santo Daime, is a religion founded by Raimundo Irineu Serra known as Mestre Irineu, Raimundo was a Catholic who served as a soldier in the Brazilian Amazon, during that period he had contact with indigenous cults involving the sacred ayahuasca plant, used by the natives of the Brazilian Amazon.Fróes, Vera.SANTO DAIMECULTURA AMAZÔNICAHISTÓRIA DO POVO DE JURAMIDAM, EDITORA YAGÉSÃO PAULO - 2019, p.8 Santo Daime is a religion that mixes Marianism with native Brazilian beliefs. Daime is an abbreviation of the Portuguese phrase 'give me love' (Dai-me Amor).Fróes, Vera.SANTO DAIMECULTURA AMAZÔNICAHISTÓRIA DO POVO DE JURAMIDAM, EDITORA YAGÉSÃO PAULO - 2019, p.9 The Santo Daime religion has managed to reach other countries, it is possible to consider that it is a world religion.Víctor Hugo Lavazza (2008). La esoteria como factor unificador en elculto del Santo Daime en la Argentina. IX Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales -Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas. Umbanda is a Kardecist Spiritism, Afro-Brazilian and Brazilian Shamanist religion, it emerged after a Kardecist medium Zélio Fernandino de Moraes came to accept the spirits of Natives and Blacks,Saidenberg, Theresa. "Como surgiu a Umbanda em nosso país: 70° aniversário de uma religião brasileira." Revista Planeta, São Paulo, N. 75, December 1978. p. 34–38. Umbanda broke with traditional spiritism.
Pentecostalism in Brazil has ritualistic characteristics of Afro-Brazilian religions,Santo, Claudinei Espirito. Matrizes africanas e suas relações com as pequenas Igrejas Pentecostais. 2018. 101 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Sociais) – Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2018. it is also very popular among black Brazilians, although Pentecostals deny that there is a syncretism between criticism and Afro-Brazilian religions. One of the most popular Pentecostal churches in Brazil, the IURD (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus), has an open relationship of syncretisms with Judaism. Brazilian Jewish authorities reject this syncretism.
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