Religious pluralism and diversities in post-constituent Brazil

• Grant number: 21/14038-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2022
• End date: September 30, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Paula Montero
• Grantee: Paula Montero
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Aramis Luis Silva ; Camila Silva Nicacio ; Cleto Junior Pinto de Abreu ; Dirceu André Gerardi ; Lilian Maria Pinto Sales ; Luciano Batista de Oliveira ; Marcelo Tavares Natividade ; Raphael Cezar da Silva Neves ; Renata Reverendo Vidal Kawano Nagamine ; Ricardo Mariano ; Sabrina Soares D Almeida ; Viola Castellano
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/16006-2 - Catholic Activism: Actors, Networks and Repertoires of Action, BE.PQ; 25/04722-8 - Religion in the debate on the Forest Code: from 2008 to 2012, BP.IC; 25/04734-6 - Abortion in cases of rape in the Brazilian Penal Code (1938-1942), BP.IC; + associated scholarships 25/02583-0 - Negotiating Diversity in Interracial and Multireligious Families in Brazil: An Analysis Based on the Concept of Deep Equality, BP.IC; 24/17094-2 - YOUTH AND SEXUALITY IN THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE FORMATION OF CONSERVATIVE IDENTITIES, BP.IC; 24/01957-1 - BLACK WOMANHOOD IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF JESUS CRUCIFIED, BP.DR; 23/16205-2 - "An Agro-Christian Coalition in Post-Constituent Brazil?", BP.TT; 23/01080-0 - Anti-gender laws in parliament: propositions contrary to sexual and reproductive rights in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo, BP.DR; 22/16449-6 - Imaginations of the social and the dispute for democracy in contemporary Brazil: religion, pluralism, and the productions of Brasil paralelo, BP.PD; 22/13618-1 - Religious Education in Brazil and Canada: Confessional, plural, or multicultural?, BP.PD; 21/06041-7 - Ethnoecological architecture in the Catholic Amazon: religion-making from the indigenous cathedral, BP.PD - associated scholarships

Abstract

This project investigates the institutional reconfigurations of the Brazilian State, religious organizations, and civil associations in light of the incorporation of principles and the implementation of policies related to pluralism established as an intrinsic value to democracy by the 1988 Constitution. The main focus of the proposal is to describe the tensions that followed the changes in the 1988 Constitution and understand how they have accompanied the current visibility of religious pluralism in Brazil. Moreover, we will investigate how it strains secularism and religious equality and other forms of difference, such as racial, ethnic, and gender differences. Attentive to the reality of this phenomenon at the global level, we will develop our analysis through at least three levels: examining how pluralism, understood as a positive normative value of citizenship, is incorporated into the State's agenda; the study of disputes and reactions to pluralism at the level of civil organizations; the description of pluralism as an experience of religious, racial, ethnic and gender diversity in everyday life. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PAULA MONTERO. Da liberdade religiosa ao pluralismo: a diversidade como valor no Ensino Religioso Escolar no Paraná. Horiz. antropol., v. 29, n. 65, 2023-03-27. (21/14038-6)