Racism and Religious Intolerance: A Critical Analysis of the Coloniality of Brazilian Christianity

被引:1
作者
Barreto, Raimundo C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Princeton Theol Seminary, World Christian, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
来源
MISSION STUDIES | 2021年 / 38卷 / 03期
关键词
Brazil; Afro-Brazilian; religious plurality; religious intolerance; racism; Brazilian Christianity;
D O I
10.1163/15733831-12341811
中图分类号
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号
010107 ;
摘要
This article examines the persistence of religious intolerance experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Drawing from recent reports and historical resources on religious intolerance, it approaches religious diversity in Brazil from a decolonial perspective, pointing to the contradiction between the image of Brazil as a place where religious change and plurality occurs with minimal conflict and the painful reality experienced by practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Picturing religious intolerance and racism as two faces of the same coin, it argues that both must be resisted. The article concludes with a call for a religious-racial literacy which is intercultural in nature, and promises a path to overcome the insidious persistence of racism and religious intolerance. Such a way forward, however, demands a dc-centering of Brazilian Christianity, despite its religious majority status, in favor of an epistemic humility which gives full consideration to the knowledge, memories, and lived experience of Afro-Brazilian religious practitioners.
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页码:398 / 423
页数:26
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