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This pathfinder contains electronic resources on religion and
philosophy in Brazil For more information about religion and
philosophy in Brazil at the Library of Congress, consult its online
catalog (http://catalog.loc.gov). The most important source
for bibliography of books and articles concerning Brazil is the
annual Handbook of Latin
American Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/)
produced by over 160 contributing editors under the editorship
of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. The Handbook
is available in selected libraries in book form.
One of the major
aggregators for links to a wide variety of subjects relating
to Brazil is the University of Texas' LANIC (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/brazil/).
This pathfinder is arranged in the following order:
Religion |
Religious Groups | Philosophy
Religion
Adherents.com (http://adherents.com)
Statistics and religious geography citations with references
to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation
statistics for more than 4,200 religions, churches, denominations,
religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements,
ultimate concerns, etc. The database is searchable by name
of religion (denomination, sect) or location.
U.S.
Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor. International Religious Freedom Report–2005:
Brazil (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51629.htm)
Annual report with individual country chapters on the status
of religious freedom worldwide.
Religious Groups
Yahoo! Brasil: Religio es no Brasil (http://br.busca.yahoo.com/search/br?p=religioes+no+brasil)
Search engine for religious sects in Brazil. In Portuguese.
Philosophy
Cobra Pages (http://www.cobra.pages.nom.br/)
A collaborative site providing biographies of both modern and contemporay
philosophers, general themes and other aspects of philosophy.
In Portuguese.
Filosofia Virtual (http://www.filosofiavirtual.pro.br/)
A site by Cristina G. M. de Oliveira providing online elementary
philosophy courses, biographies, links, recommended reading,
dictionaries and even
ideas for a
career
for pholosophy majors. Provides links to Brazilian universities
offering philosophy. In Portuguese.
Sobre Sites: Filosofia (http://www.sobresites.com/filosofia/)
Luiz Fontenelle has prepared a listing of various sites divided
by specific philosophical branches. In Portuguese.
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