The country with the single largest population of Muslim people is Indonesia, which is home to 13% of the world's Muslims in its own right. There is no dominant ethnic group, but the largest communities are from Iran, Turkey and Bosnia. As per the World Population Prospects, 2019 by the United Nations, the population of Brazil in 2023 is 216,422,446 (216 million or 21.6 crores) Source: UN World Population Prospects Brazil Demography Brazil's population growth rate during 2020-2021 is expected to be 0.51%. From this, one can see the emergence of the Brazilian-Muslim, an identity of its own, born out Brazils very own history of migration and slavery, as opposed to the Muslim-in-Brazil. Muslim Americans make up 1% of the U.S. population as of 2020. Starting around 1550, the Portuguese began to trade African slaves to work the sugar plantations once the native Tupi people deteriorated. The largest communities reside in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, and Foz do Iguacu, as well as in smaller cities in the states of Parana and Rio Grande do Sul. Many Jews came from the Netherlands to live in Brazil in the area dominated by the Dutch. Despite 60% of Brazilian Muslims being men, 70% of converted Muslims are women.[19]. In February, the Paraiba State Commission of Soccer Referees ordered Edson Boca not to wear clothing that represented his Afro-Brazilian religion while he worked as a massage therapist for the Sao Paulo Crystal soccer team. About the sentence "Umbanda is a Devil thing", 57% agreed (83% among. The total population in Brazil is projected at 212,559,417 or 212.56 million people for the year 2020. Most populous countries by density Country (or dependent territory) Population Area Area Density Rwanda (more) 12,301,970 26,338 10,169 467 Netherlands (more) 17,059,560 37,354 14,422 457 Israel (more) 8,381,516 22,072 8,522 380 Haiti (more) 11,123,178 27,750 10,714 401 . There is surprisingly little regard given to the Mal people and the acknowledgement of their role is small. In this poll, 64% reported to be Catholics, 17% Pentecostal Protestants, 5% non-Pentecostal Protestants, 3% Kardecists or Spiritists, 3% followers of other religions, 7% non-religious or atheists. Either way, Brazil boasts the second largest Jewish . Acting Governor Claudio Castro said, The inauguration of this monument sends an important message of respect, love, and tolerance that is fundamental for todays society. The memorial, which organizers began planning in 2017, was the result of a partnership between the municipal government, the Brazilian-Jewish community, and private donors. The forum has 101 members and unites representatives of 22 religious groups, including Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Afro-Brazilian, atheists, and agnostics. However, like many other countries in the world, Brazil's irreligious population is also growing. In an August 14 appeal decision, the court restored custody to the mother. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCIR organized virtual seminars and debates from August 27 to September 27. Lutherans are concentrated mostly in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and in countryside regions of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Esprito Santo. [15], Although the Federal Constitution guarantees religious tolerance to all its citizens (see article 5, item VI), it expressly prohibits all entities that make up the Federation to found and finance public cults and state churches controlled and coordinated by the Government - (see article 19, I), since until now the Brazilian State recognizes the "peculiar character" of the Catholic Church under the other religions in its legal system (see Article 16 of Decree 7107/2010), which is why the law recognizes the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, as the "patroness of Brazil" (see Article 1 of Law 6,802 / 1980); the Constitution is sworn "under the protection of God" (see Preamble of the Federal Constitution); Catholic holidays (such as the day of Our Lady of Aparecida and the day of Our Lord's birth) are recognized as national holidays by law (see Law 10.607 / 2002, Law 6.802 / 1980); the Catholic religion has an exclusive Law regulating its relationship with the State (see Decree 7107/2010); cities and states bear the name of Catholic saints; Catholic statues are exposed in public offices; the expression "God be praised" is present in all real notes; and religious teaching exclusively Catholic in public schools is permitted in the country (see ADI 4439). The community is overwhelmingly Sunni; the Sunnis are almost completely assimilated into broader society. The basis of Islam which focused on education translated into the ability of Mal scholars to take charge in the struggle for freedom. In 2010, 74 percent of Muslims lived in 49 countries, where they made up the majority of the population. The number of Muslims in Brazil, according to the 2010 census, was 35,207 out of a population of approximately 191 million people. Largest Cities in Brazil CITY NAME Schwartz, S. (1970). However, the Brazilian republican government legalized all of them on the grounds of the necessary separation between the State and the Church in 1889. However, the reduced number of African Muslims was superseded by the increase in Arab migrants, mainly from Lebanon and other regions within the Middle East. The Islamic Slave Revolts of Bahia, Brazil A Continuity of the 19th Century Jihaad Movements of Western Sudan. Nowadays, there are over 70 "terreiros" (temples) in Florianpolis, which are the places where the rituals run. [1] Due to the secular nature of Brazil's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. As of 2017, Rio de Janeiro's Jewish population was 22 000, with 24 active synagogues and So Paulo has a Jewish population of 44,000. . They are concentrated mainly in large urban centers in the Northeast, such as Salvador, Recife, or Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast. The number of PIOs in Brazil has been augmented in recent years by the arrival of nuclear scientists and computer professionals. If considered non-Christian, Spiritism would be by far the largest non-Christian religion in Brazil; if considered as a Christian religion, it would be the third largest denomination after Roman Catholicism and the Protestant Assemblies of God. Though it is unfair to say that there is a call to dumb the voices of Muslims, it is clear that no effort is made in identifying the intricate details of Muslim identity, even when many Muslims in contemporary Brazil are converts. Religious freedom is essential to freedom as a whole. By years end, there was no official investigation into comments that were alleged to be anti-Semitic. Which countries have the largest Muslim populations in the world? The organization said the videos were offensive and contained anti-Muslim sentiment. Some religious leaders again stated that attacks on Afro-Brazilian religious groups were increasing, attributing the increase in violence to criminal groups and a climate of intolerance promoted by evangelical Christian groups. Religious organizations hosted interfaith community events, including the 11th Annual Walk against Religious Intolerance in Salvador, Bahia, which drew approximately five thousand Candomble followers. In August, the embassy held a virtual roundtable with four speakers, including a representative of an Afro-Brazilian community known as a quilombo (founded by runaway slaves), who discussed the challenges for members of the community who participate in religious events in the terreiro. The general fear that the authorities held was that the influx of slaves post-1835 would follow the example of the Mal people and conduct successful emancipation campaigns. African Islam transformed under slavery, being forced to accommodate circumstances that . Within Brazil, Islam has been spread throughout and contributed to the livelihood of Brazilian cities for over a hundred years. A Sao Paulo State law establishes administrative sanctions for individuals and organizations engaging in religious intolerance. 2020, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, "Nordeste e Sul so ltimos 'basties' catlicos do Brasil", "Transio religiosa no Brasil: 1940-2032", "As evangelicals gain, Catholics on verge of losing majority in Brazil", "Once-Barred Practice Flourishes in Brazil. [14] About ninety percent of Brazilians declared some sort of religious affiliation in the most recent census. Media reported individuals set fire to, bombed, and destroyed Afro-Brazilian places of worship, sometimes injuring or threatening worshippers. This was not always the case, of course. The case was pending at years end. Percentage of 2010 world population that is Muslim: 23.4% (1,619,314,000 people) Projected Percentage of 2020 world population that is Muslim: 24.9% (1,913,499,000 people) Projected Percentage of 2030 world population that is Muslim: 26.4% (2,190,154,000 people) The current population data that underpin this report were culled from the best . They were mainly Moroccan Jews. She said the largest concentrations were in Sao Paulo, with 102 groups; Parana, with 74; and Santa Catarina, with 69. There are as many as 1500 PIOs among the Indian community in Brazil, and only 400 NRIs since foreign nationals can acquire local citizenship without any discrimination after 15 years of domicile in this country. Adherents of other Christian groups, including Jehovahs Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventists, as well as followers of non-Christian religions, including Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Afro-Brazilian and syncretic religious groups, such as Candomble and Umbanda, make up a combined three percent of the population. Muslim slaves were largely victim to the political circumstances in what is present-day Nigeria. This is perhaps due to the apparent failure of the rebellion, however, if one looks more closely at the long-term implications, 1835 was the beginning of the end for slavery in Brazil. Atheists and those with no religion represent 11 percent, and the proportion of evangelical Christians is 31 percent, compared with 24 percent in 2016. In February, three men assaulted a 57-year-old Jewish man in rural Sao Paulo State. [13], According to the IBGE census, 83.2% of Muslims are self-declared as white, 12.2% are mixed, 3.8% black, 0.8% orientals and 0.04% indigenous. Although less than two percent of the population followed Afro-Brazilian religions, a disproportionate amount of the cases registered by the human rights hotline involved victims who were practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions; 17 percent of the cases registered by the human rights hotline during the first six months of 2019 involved victims who were practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions, down from 30 percent the previous year. For example, Muslims in Indonesia are approximately 99% Sunni, 0.5% Shia, and 0.3% Ahmadi. The relevance of Muslims in arguably one of the most ethnically diverse regions in Latin America is important to note, as contributions to education, freedom, and social mixing has been promoted through the introduction of Muslims within Brazil and its various cities. On January 11, the Yle Axe Oya Bagan community in the Federal District hosted an event on combating religious intolerance, with the support of the State Secretary for Citizenship and Justice. As a result the percentage of the population that is Muslim in these three countries is rounded to the nearest integer. A recent trend has been the increase in conversions to Islam among non-Arab citizens. Muslims are followers of the religion Islam, who believe in and live by the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. [8][9], Even though it was short lived, the revolt was the largest slave revolt in Brazil and the largest urban slave revolt in the Americas. Media and religious organizations reported increased accounts of hate speech directed at religious minorities on social media and the internet, in particular anti-Afro-Brazilian and anti-Semitic comments. ", IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatstica (Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics). [30], In 1630, the Dutch conquered portions of northeast Brazil and permitted the open practice of any religion. In May, media reported Federal Senate President Davi Alcolumbre was the target of anti-Semitic harassment on social media. Huda. Overall, the number of Muslims has been growing, as well as their share of the total world population. According to recent surveys, many Brazilians consider themselves followers of more than one religion. On July 29, embassy and consulate general officials held a virtual roundtable with representatives of Afro-Brazilian religions, Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, and evangelical Christianity to discuss the state of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity in the country. For example, the Imam of the Av. They noted the Presidents June Executive Order on religious freedom and explained the United States recommitment to the human rights enshrined within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Campinas mosque now holds regular Friday juma'at prayers. According to the 2010 census, approximately 35,200 Muslims live in the country, while the Federation of Muslim Associations of Brazil estimates the number to be 1.2 to 1.5 million. This confluence of faiths during the Portuguese colonization of Brazil led to the development of a diverse array of syncretistic practices within the overarching umbrella of Brazilian Catholicism, characterized by traditional Portuguese festivities. The number of adherents of these organizations is not officially recorded but is estimated to be a few thousand. A majority of the two groups are believed to be Muslim. With a population reportedly reaching into the millions, further discussion must be sought regarding the history of Muslims in Brazil. The total number of adherents, if merged, may be in the hundreds of thousands. ), Islam includes two major denominations: Sunni (75-90%) and Shi'a (10-13%), as well as a number of smaller branches. In fact, in the 1971 census, the Muslim growth rate went down from 32.48 to 30.78. Nearly 4% of the population of Sweden is Muslim, approximately 300,000 people. Joo Jos Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1993). During the year, high level government officials made public remarks that religious minorities considered derogatory. A consulate representative also met with Ivanir dos Santos to learn about the challenges faced within the Candomble community due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new cases of religious intolerance involving followers of Afro-Brazilian religions, and possible areas in which the United States could serve as a partner for promoting religious freedom. Jos Reis, J (1995). Due to the secular nature of Brazil's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The Bar Association of Paraiba, the Interinstitutional Forum for Communication, the state Public Attorneys Office, the Religious Diversity Forum, and some religious leaders filed complaints of religious intolerance against the network with the Federal Prosecutors Office. [16] Catholicism has been Brazil's main religion since the beginning of the 16th century. Uzair Ahmed is a research fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo. The country had 1.41175 billion people at the end of 2022, compared with 1.41260 billion a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday, a fall of 850,000. By Pew in 2010, there are 204,000 Muslims in Brazil, representing 0.1% of total population. Representatives of the company denied all allegations, while stating they were in the midst of a land dispute with the terreiro, which the company claimed had illegally installed fences on the perimeter of its property. Over 3 million slaves were sent to Brazil. Changes in the 21st century have led to a growth in secularism (no religious affiliation), and to Evangelical Protestantism, at 31% of the population. [3] Had these greater numbers of slaves begun similar revolts, the colonials would have expected that Brazil would follow Haiti into independence. In July, media outlets reported an electrician would press charges against the mayor of Belford Roxo in Rio de Janeiro State because the mayors staff threatened him and made derogatory statements about his Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. Pew Research projects that the Muslim population in the U.S. will reach 1.1 percent by 2020. Most of the reports involved discrimination but did not specify what kind. According to the 2010 census, which is the most recently available data from official sources, 65 percent of the population is Catholic, 22 percent Protestant, eight percent irreligious (including atheists, agnostics, and deists), and two percent Spiritist. Answer (1 of 9): Yes, they are at best viewed as an "exoticism", which unfortunately also includes some prejudices and biases mostly due to ignorance, since Muslims are less than 0.2% of the Brazilian population and in the overwhelming majority of the country are so rare that probably most people. 51% disagreed. A consulate representative met with Candomble priest and head of the Commission to Combat Religious Intolerance (CCIR) Ivanir dos Santos to learn about the challenges faced within the Candomble community due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new cases of religious intolerance involving followers of Afro-Brazilian religions, and possible areas in which the United States could serve as a partner for promoting religious freedom. London: Macmillan, 1981, p. 250, Slave rebellion in Brazil: the Muslim uprising of 1835 in Bahia, p. 139, ftp://ftp.ibge.gov.br/Censos/Censo_Demografico_2010/Caracteristicas_Gerais_Religiao_Deficiencia/tab1_4.pdf, "Countries that Recognize Palestine 2022", "Islam in Brazil or the Islam of Brazil? 249 -. According to the Bahia State Secretariat of Racial Equality, there were 10 instances of religious intolerance in the state between January and August, compared with 34 instances in the comparable period in 2019. The country with the largest number of Muslims overall is Indonesia, which is home to an estimated 231 million Muslims. The men shouted anti-Semitic epithets, including, Hitler should have killed the Jews and freed the world during the beating, cut the victims kippah with a pocketknife, and broke some of his teeth. Other PIOs migrated to this country from various African countries, mainly from former Portuguese colonies (especially Mozambique), soon after their independence in the 1970s. [citation needed] About a fifth of the Japanese Brazilian community are followers of Buddhism. July 2, 2020, at 6:00 a.m. Latino Muslims Growing Rapidly in U.S. More. [19] The 2010 Census reported that 22.2% of the Brazilian population is Protestant, about 44 million people. There were reports of private entities and individuals inciting violence against or engaging in verbal harassment of religious minorities on social media and in the press. Copyright 2023 The President and Fellows of Harvard College, Religion and Society Graduate Certificate (Harvard Extension School). The Constitution of Brazil guarantees freedom of religion and strongly prohibits the establishment of any religion by banning government support or hindrance of religion at all levels.[4]. The government estimates as of 2019 approximately 85.5 percent of the total population is Christian and 11 percent Muslim. Office of the U.S. Islam arrived in Brazil with West African slaves, including Hausa, Malinkes, and Yoruba. In contrast, 2020 saw the Brazilian population grow just 0.72%. Candomble priest Mae Iara de Oxum organized the 11th annual event, which had the support of the Salvador municipal government and the Gregorio de Matos Foundation. Brazil is a predominantly Christian country with Islam being a minority religion, first brought by African slaves and then by Lebanese and Syrian immigrants. Firstly, from a socio-economic perspective, Brazil's Muslim population is relatively wealthy - the average Brazilian Muslim has a higher income than the average Brazilian. [1], In 2022, according to the denomination, Brazil had 909 879 Jehovah's Witnesses with 12 439 congregations and a ratio of 1 Witness to 238 residents. But Goinia is the state capital with the largest proportion of Pentecostal Protestants in the country (20.41%), followed by Boa Vista, Porto Velho, Belm and Belo Horizonte. RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE, Harvard Divinity School14 DivinityAvenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. my.hds |Harvard Divinity School |Harvard University |Privacy | Accessibility | Digital Accessibility | Trademark Notice | Reporting Copyright InfringementCopyright 2023 President and Fellows of Harvard College. Brazil ranks number 6th in the world by population in the list of 235 countries/territories. On December 13, Rio de Janeiro Mayor Crivella inaugurated the Monument in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. If we compare the growth rates of all communities in the 2001 and 2011 census, the sharpest and steepest decline was registered by the Muslim community from 29.52 to 24.60. LONDON -Fewer than half of people in England and Wales now count themselves as Christian, after a big increase in people with no religion, while the share of the population who identify as white has dropped, new census data showed on Tuesday. On December 18, the embassy and consulates general hosted a webinar with an associate professor of political science from a U.S. university and author of a book on religion and democracy. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne S. M. Angeles (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010), pp. The constitution prohibits the federal, state, and local governments from either supporting or hindering any specific religion. On January 21, municipalities around the country commemorated the National Day to Combat Religious Intolerance. In response to attacks on Afro-Brazilian religious places of worship, the municipal government in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated a new building in February that housed the Center for Assistance to Victims of Religious Intolerance. . The police were alerted around 7:30 p.m. that a man had just tried to set his companion on fire in rue Sainte-Adlade. Supporters of Bolsonaro said the slogan was based on a New Testament passage: And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free., In January, President Bolsonaro dismissed Culture Minister Roberto Alvim after Alvim included in remarks excerpts from a speech by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. The rebellion had nationwide repercussions. [1], The 2010 national census reported 226,509 people identifying as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints;[23] This is very different from the church's reported membership, in 2012, of 1 173 533[24] causing some to question the membership numbers reported by the LDS church.[25]. In 1900 the Muslim population was 200 million, today they're about 2 billion, so in over a century they increased their population tenfold. U.S. Government Policy and Engagement. Muslim Americans are primarily concentrated in major metropolitan areas, particularly in the New York City area. Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. Muslim populations have tended to stay in the cities with a high percentage of the Muslim-Brazilian population being business owners and maintaining independent businesses and community networks. Scholars claim that Brazil received more enslaved Muslims than anywhere else in the Americas. 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