Talk:Religion in Brazil

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1 Syncretism
2 Introduction
3 Hinduism in Brazil
4 Statistics
5 Candomble and Umbanda
6 ?

[edit] Syncretism

The article states: "Protestantism is generally the only religion in Brazil relatively free of syncretism.".

My muslims, orthodox christians and orthodox jewish friends, their families and communities do not syncretize their faiths with others religions or with the brazilian folklore.

Ricardo Carvalho 2007/01/14, 9:36 PM (Brazilian Summer Time)

[edit] Introduction

There is obviously a contradiction in the first paragraph, someone should fix that. RodolfoPiskorski 03:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hinduism in Brazil

I moved this from the article to here, from an anonymous editor Corvokarasu 13:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC) :

No one can convert to Hinduism, they must be born Hindu. Therefore, white Brazilians cannot covert to Hinduism and this also proves that this site is not that handy. To make things clear you can practice Hindusim but you can never convert to Hinduism.

They exist. They begin reading Annie Besant and Eleanor Blavatski, then they jump on Hinduist phylosophy. I know lots of them. Words like "prana", "dharma", "moshka" etc are not foreign for a bunch of mid-to-up class Brazilians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.24.21.122 (talk) 01:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

There are a lot of converts to Hinduism, most Western converts go to ISKCON which is a distinct part(Bhaktivedanta said its not Hinduism but many do now) of one of the Hindu religions(the sects have major differences so I might as well)...look at Ram Das for an example of an American convert(formerly Richard Alpert), look at Gangaji, Krishna Das Linda Johnsen(writer of 'Idiot's Guide to Hinduism')...I think you're getting confused with jati and caste, but that is up to the person as well, I'm a convert with a philosophical bent so I'm a BrahminDomsta333 (talk) 12:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics

I like the new statistics in the introductory paragraph, but why the spaces? To me, it just looks cluttered, like the tabs are off. Also, the statistic of 600,000 Latter-day Saints contradicts the 200,000 number later in the article. I'm pretty sure the 200,000 is what is in the 2000 census and the 600,000 is the statistic generated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Do you think we should use one or the other. Maybe specify where the information is coming from, because right now it's a little misleading. Corvokarasu 13:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

The Latter-day Saint number given by the church is how many people they have on their record, including, aparently, 400,000 people who were baptized and then never went back. I changed it back to 200,000, because that is a highly more reliable number

[edit] Candomble and Umbanda

The article says: "0.3% are followers of African traditional religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda"

The number of Brazilians who believe/follow in Candomble and Umbanda is probably 50 times larger than only 0.3% because they pretend they are Catholics (they are actually baptized as Catholics and eventually frequent the Catholic church because of social needs like weddings and funerals) but they don't believe in Catholicism, they just pretend they are, when they are actually followeres of Candomble and Umbanda. It happens because of the syncretism, they associate African gods to Catholic Saints and pay homages to Saints as if they were their African gods. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.24.21.122 (talk) 01:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree, Candomblé went through much prejudice, that is such an undercount especially with people practice 2 or more religions in Brazil, Candomblé is syncretic, people in Rio offer flowers to the sea at the end of the year signifying offering to both Yemaya and Mary..Domsta333 (talk) 12:07, 19 March 2008 (UTC)