{"title":"Religious Racism in Brazil: Introduction","authors":"Gustavo Melo Cerqueira, Danielle N. Boaz","doi":"10.5325/jafrireli.9.2.0250","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The six essays in this roundtable provide firsthand accounts by devotees and activists in Brazil who experienced incidents of religious racism or sought to bring the assailants to justice. Many such incidents, which include harassment, physical violence, and destruction of property, among other things, are perpetrated by members of evangelical Christian churches.","PeriodicalId":41877,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Africana Religions","volume":"9 1","pages":"250 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Africana Religions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.9.2.0250","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:The six essays in this roundtable provide firsthand accounts by devotees and activists in Brazil who experienced incidents of religious racism or sought to bring the assailants to justice. Many such incidents, which include harassment, physical violence, and destruction of property, among other things, are perpetrated by members of evangelical Christian churches.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.