Abstract: The paper analyses how Afro-religious have built strategies to value traditional eating habits of “terreiros” (cult house) on the public scene to ensure their ways of life. The ethnographic data were constructed in cooperation with members of the National Food and Nutritional Security Forum of Traditional African Matrix Peoples and the Braulio Goffman Study Group, between 2014 and 2018. Our goal was to understand how they created a national agenda for the “religious slaughter” on cult houses before the trial on the Supreme Federal Court. The work concludes that, starting on the defense of the right to traditional nutrition, the Afro-religious established strategies to fight religious racism and the vindication of rights having as reference the international human rights legislation.
Keywords:
religious slaughter; religious racism; recognition of rights.