The Brazilians' religion

this article suggests that, behind a great institutional diversity, the brazilian religious field is crisscrossed by tendencies and modalities of organization which grant it a real homogeneity due to an overall reference to catholicism, a certain tendency to porosity and mutual contamination of religious identities - constantly suppressed by rationalizing influences struggling for a more rigorous identity -, and the presence of a spiritualistic atmosphere which marks the processes of constructing social subjects. our working hypothesis is that there exists a fundamental religious dimension, specially strong in the contemporary world and prior to institutional definitions of religion.