Documentary study on religious intolerance against Tradicional Peoples of Terreiros

Abstract

Religious intolerance, throughout history, has presented itself as a set of discriminatory meanings, experiences, and episodes directed at individuals or groups, due to their beliefs and religion. In Brazil, traditional terreiro peoples suffer its impacts most frequently. The purpose of this research was to study aspects of religious intolerance against traditional terreiro peoples, based on an exploratory analysis of a phenomenological qualitative approach in scientific texts and in government and non-government public documents, and to triangulate the results obtained in search of a broad sampling of the phenomenon. It was concluded that religious intolerance is a complex phenomenon, with a considerable universe of meanings and discussions, among which are understandings of religion-related matters, capable of generating suffering and are commonly associated with historical tensions in various aspects of human life, such as political, legal, social, ideological, cultural, psychological, relational, etc., and directly affect religious minority groups, such as traditional terreiro peoples, in their processes of recognition and realization of rights.