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Symbols of various beliefs
Brazil is a country that has a rich religious diversity. Due to cultural miscegenation, the result of various immigration processes, we find in our country several religions (Christian, Islamic, Afro-Brazilian, Jewish, etc.).
Check out the main religions and beliefs in Brazil and their followers (Source: IBGE 2000 Demographic Census).
| Religion or Belief | # Of followers in Brazil |
Roman Apostolic Catholic Church | 124.980.132 |
Orthodox Catholic Church | 38.060 |
Baptist Church | 3.162.691 |
Lutheran Church | 1.062.145 |
Presbyterian Church | 981.064 |
Methodist Church | 340.963 |
Assembly of God | 8.418.140 |
Christian Congregation of Brazil | 2.489.113 |
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God | 2.101.887 |
Foursquare Gospel Church | 1.318.805 |
God is love church | 774.830 |
Other Pentecostal / Neopentecostal | 2.514.532 |
seventh-day Adventist Church | 1.209.842 |
Jehovah's Witnesses | 1.104.886 |
Mormons | 199.645 |
Spiritism | 2.262.401 |
Umbanda | 397.431 |
Buddhism | 214.873 |
Candomblé | 127.582 |
Messianic Church | 109.310 |
Judaism | 86.825 |
Esoteric Traditions | 58.445 |
Islam | 27.239 |
Indigenous Beliefs | 17.088 |
Orientals (Baháísmo, hare krishna, Hinduismo, Taoísmo, Shinto, seicho-no-ye) | 52.507 |
Other religions | 41.373 |
No declaration / not determined | 741.601 |
Without religion | 12.492.403 |
Afro-Brazilian Religions
Afro-Brazilian religions are considered to be all religions that originated in the traditional African religions, which were brought to Brazil by black Africans as slaves.
Below is a list of religions and the states of Brazil where they are practiced.
- Babassuê - Pará
- Batuque - Rio Grande do Sul
- Cabula - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina.
- Candomblé - In all states of Brazil
- Egungun Worship - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
- Worship of Ifá - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
- Macumba - Rio de Janeiro
- Omoloko - Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo
- Quimbanda - Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
- Mine Drum - Maranhão
- Terecô - Maranhão
- Umbanda - In all states of Brazil
- Xambá - Alagoas, State of Pernambuco
- Northeast Shango - Pernambuco
At Afro-Brazilian religions most are related to the Yoruba religion and other traditional African religions, it is a part of Afro-American religions and different from Afro-Cuban religions such as Santeria de Cuba and Vodou of Haiti little known in Brazil.
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