{"id":147,"date":"2008-01-28T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-01-28T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:22:15","slug":"religious-trends-in-brazil-riogringa-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/religious-trends-in-brazil-riogringa-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Trends in Brazil: RioGringa Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I point you to a <b><a href=\"http:\/\/riogringa.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2008\/01\/in-brazil-its-w.html\">terrific post<\/a><\/b> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riogringa.com\">RioGringa<\/a> about religion in Brazil, specifically the trends related to religious affiliation over the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights: Catholicism is on the decline, Candombl\u00e9 (the afro-syncretic religion) is gaining a substantial white membership, and Atheism is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>As Rachel (RioGringa) writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite these trends, a recent poll shows that though more Brazilians are turning away from religion than ever, atheism is a cultural taboo. When asked who they would vote for for President, 84% said they\u00b4d vote for a black person, 57% said they\u00b4d vote for a woman, 32% said they\u00b4d vote for a gay person, and a measly 13% said they\u00b4d vote for an atheist.<\/p>\n<p>The negative side is interesting too. Only 1% said they wouldn\u00b4t vote for a black person, only 12% said they wouldn\u00b4t vote for a woman, and then 34% said they wouldn\u00b4t vote for a gay person, and then 59% said they wouldn\u00b4t vote for an atheist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very interesting indeed&#8230; thoughts anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I point you to a terrific post by RioGringa about religion in Brazil, specifically the trends related to religious affiliation over the past few decades. Among the highlights: Catholicism is on the decline, Candombl\u00e9 (the afro-syncretic religion) is gaining a substantial white membership, and Atheism is on the rise. As Rachel (RioGringa) writes: Despite&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/religious-trends-in-brazil-riogringa-reports\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1848],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-customs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}