Brief Considerations About the Brazilian Secular State

Natammy Luana de Aguiar Bonissoni

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Brief Considerations About the Brazilian Secular State

Natammy Luana de Aguiar Bonissoni

Published in International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 14 August 2019 Accepted: 20 September 2019 Published: 30 September 2019

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Abstract

Law and religion do not mix. This is one of the fallacious maxims of recent years and that unfortunately brings several misunderstandings when it comes to the relationship between the state and the religious phenomena. It is not hard to see that countless perceptions on the subject, when presented in the media, academic, social and legal fields, do not take into account the constitutional foundations, the cultural values and, especially, the spiritual character of the human being as the structuring of human life. Nowadays, Brazil has been facing political and legal problems in view of the lack of understanding of the principle of Secularity applied in the Brazilian context. By electing an openly religious President, defender of the customs and practices of his religious belief, the comprehension of the subject is necessary to set aside misconceptions, in order to address the issue with the seriousness and scientificity that it deserves. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to clarify what it means to be a secular Brazilian State, aiming to demonstrate, as a result, that the secular model adopted in Brazil does not mean the absence of religiousness in the public sphere, but the guarantee and protection of all its expressions.

Published in	International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijls.20190203.15
Page(s)	54-57
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Brazil, Religion, Religious Freedom, Secular State, Secularity

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Postgraduate Law Program, University of Vale do Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil

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