A violência gerada pela intolerância religiosa no Brasil

Abstract

The present work sought to investigate the forms and places of higher incidence of violence generated by religious intolerance in Brazil. The objective of the research was to investigate where the largest number of cases of violence reside and which religious groups are most affected. The problem sought subsidies to answer about what generates the resistance of people to religious manifestations different from their own, and what would be the means to establish appropriate strategies for such behavior to be eradicated. For the accomplishment of the study, the adopted method was the exploratory one. It served as input for this research, qualitative and quantitative in nature, in which the bibliographic and documentary researches were used. The results achieved indicate that there are several factors that interfere in the real exercise of freedom of belief, and the main ones are related to discrimination, lack of dialogue between different religious communities or not; and the lack of knowledge and information, making the predominant religious groups want to superimpose their dogmas on minorities.