The main victims are religions of African origin, such as Umbanda and Candomblé. Their followers are threatened and their religious temples destroyed and ransacked. This intolerance is fuelled by ...

Objective: To further our understanding of religious possession experiences by focusing on personality, cognitive, and quality of life outcomes. Methods: Data collection was undertaken at Umbanda ...

GABRIEL_VOLPI In 2018, Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, “got an intuition [that ...

Americans’ overall perceptions of religion tilt positive, according to the survey, but appear to have cooled since 2014. Overall, 51% express mostly positive views of religious institutions ...

One, the Confederação Espirita da Umbanda, claims ... “They are instinctively religious, but they need help and spiritual guidance which they cannot always get. All the Masses celebrated ...

Among those who participated were followers of the Candomble religion, which was brought to Brazil by enslaved west Africans at the start of the 19th century. Partisans of the Umbanda religion ...

It's not an exaggeration to speak of religious intolerance in that territory." Vital says Afro-Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé religious houses have been shut down in surrounding neighbourhoods ...

Karl Marx once said religion is the opiate of the masses. His metaphor may have a whiff of literal truth, even if it was intended as a hostile attack on religion from an atheistic perspective.

Picture bacchanalian revels, wine, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll! That’s what people who leave religion are up to, right? Without the moral strictures of religion, and with all that additional ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

Under the U.S. Constitution, public schools cannot promote or advance any particular religion, and they must respect the individual religious beliefs of students and staff. What that looks like in ...