Povos de terreiro e religiões de matriz africana : subversão e resistência negra frente ao racismo no Brasil

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis (TCC) addresses the peoples of the terreiro, African-matrix religions, and racism in Brazil. The general objective was to understand how the peoples of African-matrix religions face racism and contribute to the strengthening of Black resistance in Brazil. The specific objectives sought to: analyze religious racism and its relationship with structural racism in Brazil; explain daily expressions of religious racism suffered by the peoples of the terreiro in Brazil; and understand how African-matrix religions constitute themselves as political spaces of resistance and confrontation against racism within the Brazilian context. The study is exploratory and qualitative in nature, utilizing bibliographic research procedures that enabled a dialogue with a significant theoretical framework regarding the theme and its central categories. Historical-dialectical materialism was the method that guided the research, considering the need to overcome the appearance and immediacy of the object of study, seeking to reach the determinations that affect its dynamics. The main findings of the research highlight how African-matrix religions and the peoples of the terreiro are essential for preserving identity and combating structural racism in Brazil, representing Black resistance in political, physical, and spiritual aspects.