André Bueno
Abstract
The formation of Brazilian culture is relatively new in the world history. With just
over five hundred years of existence, Brazil was created from several different cultural
sources: indigenous, European, African and Asian. This situation created a rich and
complex situation, which makes many believe a genuine Brazilian civilization, with its
own characteristics. However, after 1989, with the apparent end of the Cold War, the
political situation in Brazil has changed significantly. Without the conflict “Capitalism x
Socialism”, it created a vacuum in Brazilian politics: what options the Brazilians would
have to reorganize their society? The search for cultural origins seemed an excellent
substitute for this: Brazilians began to use religious or cultural theories as forms of
political thought, invoking the traditions to solve social problems. But, what traditions?
In a multifaceted country, which traditions can guide the future? And again, which is the
concept of “traditional” in Brazilian mentality? In this paper, I will try to present this
complex scenario of the current Brazil; a field of struggle between conflicting traditions
and religions in search of political and social space.
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