Paula Montero

Religion, Ethnicity and Race in Brazilian Pluralism: Semiotic Constructions of the Secular

This article examines the connections between secularism and ethnic-racial as well as religious claims within Brazilian pluralist democracy. We use a semiotic analysis in which the categories of race, ethnicity, religion, and the secular are viewed as signs (Gal 2015; Agha 2007). Specifically, we argue that the way the...