Intolerância religiosa: um estudo sobre os casos de intolerância ocorridos no terreiro de candomblé Ilê Ase Ibi Olú Fonnim e com seus integrantes na vida social

Abstract

Brazil is a secular country, there is no official religion and, despite religious freedom guaranteed by law, religious racism is still quite present in our society. In gentle lands, African blacks who were enslaved and forced to practice the Catholic religion, hitherto religion as official of the Portuguese empire, thus their cultures were being marginalized and covert. This intolerance has spread to the present day, is propagated through sectarian and proselytizing ideologies of some religious leaders who foment in society, through fanatical followers, the physical and symbolic violence mainly against the religions of African matrix. The objective of this article is to understand, from the political-religious bias, how the stereotypes about the Afro-Brazilian religions were constructed in the colonial period and the maintenance of these concepts by the comb and neopentecostal media. To do so, we will use bibliographic review, data collection on the Internet and qualitative field research to discuss the relationship between intolerance and stigma and as pejorative social representations that may interfere with individual identity.