“CHUTA QUE É MACUMBA”: O PERCURSO HISTÓRICO-LEGAL DA PERSEGUIÇÃO ÀS RELIGIÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS

Abstract

Stablished in colonial and slaver Brazil, afro-Brazilian religions, from the very beginning, have been persecuted and subjected to bias, facing racist theories and a social-politic rejection, deeply embodied in the Brazilian Constitution. Notions like “social pollution”, “popular belief”, among other, prevailed a scientific evolutionist disposition on African cultures, which was and still is used on the behalf of a Christian-based society. Those dispositions last until the present day, in a context of an emergent and intense evangelic war and are enforced by the Candomblé ritual sacrifices as modus operandi, which tend to be invoked as ‘prove’ of its demoniacal background.