Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate

The text analyzes interreligious organizations and movements in Brazil based on the concept of the pluralist principle. It aims to systematize, based on observations of practices and studies of documents from prominent inter-religious experiences in Brazil, the degree of incidence of efforts to deep...

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Main Author: Claudio de Oliveira Ribeiro
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-07-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/7/861
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description The text analyzes interreligious organizations and movements in Brazil based on the concept of the pluralist principle. It aims to systematize, based on observations of practices and studies of documents from prominent inter-religious experiences in Brazil, the degree of incidence of efforts to deepen democracy; defend human rights and the rights of nature; provide citizenship; appreciate ethnic, sexual, and gender diversity; and other effective decolonial forms of counter-hegemonic social articulation in these groups. Among the results, we present theoretical bases that show that it is necessary, for social analyses, to pay special attention to the articulation of the intersection between religious groups’ capacity for dialogue and the challenges surrounding social agendas that reinforce decolonial socio-religious perspectives. The profile of some inter-religious experiences within the scope of the research is also indicated.
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Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
Religions
religious diversity
human rights
interreligious movements
pluralist principle
decoloniality
title Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
title_full Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
title_fullStr Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
title_full_unstemmed Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
title_short Interreligious Movements in Brazil: Human Rights, Decoloniality, and Pluralism in Debate
title_sort interreligious movements in brazil human rights decoloniality and pluralism in debate
topic religious diversity
human rights
interreligious movements
pluralist principle
decoloniality
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