期刊名称：Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião
印刷版ISSN：1518-4463
电子版ISSN：1982-2650
出版年度：2006
卷号：08
期号：08
页码：63-84
出版社：Associação de Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
摘要：The urban landscape is the stage of many significant religious transformations in recent decades. Urbanization and religious diversification went hand in hand, and the researchers on religion and religious movements accredited the migration to the cities of millions of poor peasants in Latin America as an important contribution to the growth of new religious groups and identities in the urban environment, the increasing emancipation of old religions, and a diversification of the religious field as a whole. Like other Brazilian cities, Recife has witnessed many processes of religious meaning making and religiously inspired identity formation. Where Roman Catholicism once predominated, there is now a rich variety of religions, ranging from Anglicanism through Pentecostalism to Mormonism, while the previously hidden urban indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cults – such as Catimbó and Xangó – have now emerged into the open. Such religious transformations are worth including in analyses of contemporary urban life. In the urban context of increasing cultural pluralization, religion plays multiple roles. These roles and the development of religion in this city, are explored by recounting three different episodes of the connection between the urban landscape, urban lives, and the religious meaning making and practices of different urban populations, with a focus on the visual aspects of the religious presence in the urban landscape, and processes of identity construction.
