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Irreligion In Brazil
file:Templo Positivista em Porto Alegre.JPG, Religion of Humanity, Positivist temple in Brazil. Positivism, a secular movement, influenced the thinking and actions of the founders of the First Brazilian Republic, Brazilian republic Irreligion in Brazil has increased in the last few decades. In the 2010 census, 8% of the population identified as "irreligious". Since 1970, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has included ''sem religião'' (Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''no religion'') as a self-description option in their decennial census, for people who do not consider themselves members of any specific religion, including non-affiliated theists and deism, deists. In the 2010 census, 8.0% of the population declared themselves "irreligious". The Constitution grants freedom of religion and thought to its citizensArt. 5, VI. In 2008, the Brazilian Association of Atheists and Agnostics was founded; it promotes secularism and supports irreligious victims of prejud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual. Individualists promote realizing one's goals and desires, valuing independence and self-reliance, and advocating that the interests of the individual should gain precedence over the state or a social group, while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government. Individualism makes the individual its focus, and so starts "with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation". L. Susan Brown. '' The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism''. Black Rose Books Ltd. 1993 Individualism represents one kind of sociocultural perspective and is often defined in contrast to other perspectives, such as communitarianism, collectivism and corporatism. Individualism is also associated with artistic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letícia Persiles
Letícia Persiles (; born 2 January 1983) is a Brazilian actress and singer who played the lead role in the telenovela ''Amor Eterno Amor''. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Letícia Persiles has a son with her husband, the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho, who she met for the first time during the filming of the 2008 miniseries Capitu. Career Acting career She played the teenage Capitu in the Rede Globo miniseries Capitu, based on the book Dom Casmurro, by Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Letícia Persiles played the lead role in the 2012 telenovela Amor Eterno Amor as the journalist Miriam Allende, who is the main romantic interest of the character played by Gabriel Braga Nunes. Letícia Persiles replaced Carol Castro, who was originally cast to play the lead role of the telenovela. She plays Alinne Moraes best friend, Anita, in the 2015 telenovela Além do Tempo ''Além do Tempo'' (''beyond time''; English title: ''Time After Time'') is a Brazilian telenovela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Guinle
Jorge Eduardo Guinle (Petrópolis, 5 February 1916 – Rio de Janeiro, 5 March 2004), also known as Jorginho Guinle, was a Brazilian billionaire tycoon from the Guinle family of Rio, Brazil. He was known as one of the richest men on earth, a jazz enthusiast and the "last tycoon playboy".Mo Teitelbaum, The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism 1915-45', page 115, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011, He was romantically associated with numerous stars including Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Hedy Lamarr, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Jayne Mansfield, Susan Hayward, Carole Landis Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 ..., and Linda Christian.Diane Telgen and Jim Kamp, Notable Hispanic American women' (Issue 68), VNR AG, 1993, References 2004 deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreira Gullar
José Ribamar Ferreira (September 10, 1930 – December 4, 2016), known by his pen name Ferreira Gullar, was a Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer. In 1959, he was instrumental in the formation of the Neo-Concrete Movement. Influence of Neo-Concretes The Neo-Concrete Manifesto was written in 1959 by Gullar and begins: We use the term "neo-concrete" to differentiate ourselves from those committed to non-figurative "geometric" art ( neoplasticism, constructivism, suprematism, the school of Ulm) and particularly the kind of concrete art that is influenced by a dangerously acute rationalism. In the light of their artistic experience, the painters, sculptors, engravers and writers participating in this first neo-concrete exhibition came to the conclusion that it was necessary to evaluate the theoretical principles on which concrete art has been founded, none of which offers a rationale for the expressive potential they feel their art contains. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drauzio Varella
Antônio Drauzio Varella (; born May 3, 1943, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian physician, scientist, writer, and medical science communicator. Varella has often commented publicly on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, government, literature, medicine, and skepticism, and has frequently debunked pseudoscientific medical claims. Varella was born in the Brás district of São Paulo to a family of Portuguese and Spanish descent and studied medicine at the University of São Paulo. While an undergraduate, he co-founded preparatory course Sistema Objetivo, where he taught chemistry for several years. The institution was later expanded into Universidade Paulista Varella received the 2000 Prêmio Jabuti for his book '' Estação Carandiru''. Career After his 1967 graduation, Varella specialized in infectious disease, studying under Vicente Amato Neto at the University of São Paulo and at the Hospital do Servidor Público de São Paulo. This work led him to devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque (), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, and cultural reflections on Brazil. The firstborn son of Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Buarque lived at several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rome. He wrote and studied literature as a child and found music through the bossa nova compositions of Tom Jobim and João Gilberto. He performed as a singer and guitarist in the 1960s as well as writing a play that was deemed dangerous by the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time. Buarque, along with several Tropicalist and MPB musicians, was threatened by the Brazilian military government and eventually left Brazil for Italy in 1969. However, he came back to Brazil in 1970, and continued to record, perform, and write, though muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico Anysio
Chico Anysio (born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho, 12 April 1931 – 23 March 2012) was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Biography Anysio was born in Maranguape, Ceará. He moved with the family to Rio de Janeiro when he was 7 years old, and tried to work on ''Rádio Guanabara''. Since 1968 was joined to Rede Globo, which achieved the status of a star cast that boasted the most famous artists of Brazil. Anysio was one of the most famous Brazilian comedians of all times and is considered the greatest Brazilian comedian ever. He died on 23 March 2012, aged 80, in Samaritano Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, from multiple organ failure. Private life He was the brother of actress Lupe Gigliotti, of director Zelito Viana and composer and Radio-producer Elano de Paula and father of actors Lug de Paula, Nizo Neto and DJ Cícero Chaves, born from marriage with Regina Chaves. His last wife was the manager Malga Di Paula. Regarding religion Anysio was a voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. Portinari painted more than five thousand canvases, from small sketches to monumental works such as the '' Guerra e Paz'' panels, which were donated to the United Nations Headquarters in 1956. Portinari developed a social preoccupation throughout his oeuvre and maintained an active life in the Brazilian cultural and political worlds. Life and career Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Chiampo Vicenza, Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo. Growing up on a coffee plantation of dark soil and blue sky, Portinari gained his inspiration from the homeland he loved. In the majority of his later paintings, murals and frescoes, he used the colour blue and many browns and reds because this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Jabor
Arnaldo Jabor (12 December 1940 – 15 February 2022) was a Brazilian film director and producer, screenwriter, writer, journalist and political pundit for Brazilian television network Rede Globo. Biography He was of Jewish Lebanese descent and identified as an atheist. Initially associated with the Cinema Novo movement with his first fiction feature ''Pindorama'' (1970), Jabor went on directing nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film '' All Nudity Shall Be Punished'' won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1980s, Jabor reached critical and commercial success with his erotically-charged psychological romantic dramas ''I Love You'' (1981) and '' Love Me Forever or Never'' (1986), with the latter gathering a Palm d'Or nomination at the 39th Cannes Film Festival. At the end of his filmmaking career, he considered his satirical comedy '' Tudo Bem'' (1978) as his best film. Jabor died as a result of a stroke in São Paulo São ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alinne Moraes
Aline Cristine Dorelli de Magalhães e Morais (; born 22 December 1982), known professionally as Alinne Moraes, is a Brazilian actress. She is best known by her roles as Maria Sílvia in '' Duas Caras'' and as Luciana in '' Viver a Vida''. Biography and career Moraes was born in Sorocaba, São Paulo. She is an atheist. Before becoming an actress, she worked as a fashion model, starting at the age of 12 and retiring 6 years later. As a popular actress in Brazil, she was named as one of ''100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004'' (or ''As 100 Mulheres Mais Sexy do Mundo 2004'' by ''VIP'' magazine internet poll. Besides appearing in ''VIP'' magazine, she has also appeared in magazines such as ''Claudia'', Nova, ''UMA'', Marie Claire, ''Trip'', Boa Forma and ''Elle Brasil''. In 2014, Moraes was cast in '' Em Família'' but was unable to make it to filming due to her pregnancy, she was later replaced by Tainá Müller. Her first work as an actress was on the telenovela '' Coração de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
