Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil

Prof. Paula Montero is an Anthropology Professor at the State University of São Paulo (USP – Brazil) and a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, she was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University in 1984 and Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 1996. She participates as a principal investigator of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project (University of Ottawa). Her research interests are focused on the interface between religion, law, and pluralism.Prof. Camila Nicácio is a Law School Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG – Brazil). Ph.D. in Law at the Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, France. She is Visiting Professor at Université de Laval, University of Ottawa, and Université Paris I, and participates as a collaborator of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project (University of Ottawa). Her research interests are focused on the interface between law/religion, legal pluralism, human rights, and conflict mediation.Dr. Henrique Antunes is a postdoctoral fellow at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Psychoactive Substances (NEIP) and the coordinator of the Ayahuasca Community Committee of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. He is also a member of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project. His research interests are focused on religion, law, and drug policies.

• Introduction: Religious Pluralism and Law in Contemporary Brazil.- Part I Pluralism: minority rights, religious freedom and secularism.- Religion and Laicity in Dispute: Two Categories Under Construction in Brazil’s legal Debate on Religious Education in Public Schools.- Evangelical jurists and human rights in Brazil: a case study of the National Association of Evangelical Jurists (ANAJURE).- Formalizing religious intolerance in police records: a picture of a (de)construction problem.- Evangelicals Against the Criminalization of Homophobia: The “Christian Majority" and the Dispute Over Public Morality.- “It is not solved just by writing it down on paper”: patrimonialization policies and the religious use of ayahuasca as a Brazilian intangible cultural heritage.- Part II Human Rights as Language.- Controversies in Brazil’s Supreme Court over when human life begins.- Quilombola communities and the right to land ownership: notes on a legal controversy in the Supreme Federal Court.- Humanrights and their policy-visibility in producing a public Islam in Brazil.- Human rights and works of the imagination: an ethnography of the first ordained transgender reverend in Latin America.