brazil culture and religion

Religion and culture

Brazil is a religiously diverse country, with a tendency for tolerance and acceptance among different faiths. The Brazilian population is largely Catholic because of the religious heritage of the Portuguese. Africa by religious customs were Afro-Brazilians. In the late nineteenth century began to be released on spiritualism in Brazil, which today is the largest number of spiritualists in the world. In recent decades the Protestant religion has grown, making it a very significant part of the population. Judaism has 86,825 faithful, 0.05% of the population, concentrated mainly in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The number of people who say they have a religion is 7.4%, group second only to Catholics and Protestants

Brazilian culture refers to the various peoples who make up the emographics of this South American country: Indians, Europeans, Africans, Asians, Arabs etc, as well as the wide range of events through which it has been expressing this amalgam of expressions culture: music, painting, literature, film, architecture. As a result of an intense mixture between people, there

arose a  peculiar cultural reality, which summarizes the various cultures