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Is there such a thing as 'black' religion in Brazil  

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Is there such a thing as 'black' religion in Brazil Brazil is a multi-cultural and pluri-ethnic society. The population is made up of peoples from all over; native Indians, Blacks from Africa, Iberians, East Europeans and Japanese for example. Miscegenation and racial mixing has resulted in a myriad of races, ethnicities and cultures. The arrival (except the indigenous peoples who were already there) and immigration of these people from all over the world, in the past five hundred years has signified the arrival of numerous different cultures, ways of life, patterns of behaviour, languages, customs, traditions, religions and beliefs. Their lagacies constitute Brazil and its people today. Blacks, throughout history, have played an integral role in the Brazilian economy. The Atlantic Slave Trade brought African slaves to the New World over a three hundred year time span, to work as slave labour throughout the Americas. Africans from Guinea and Angola, to...

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