JUDEUS, CATÓLICOS E PROTESTANTES NA TERRA DO AÇUCAR: AFINIDADES E DIVERGÊNCIAS

The Catholic Church was hegemonic in the colonial times in Portuguese-America, but other religious denominations also constituted the religious field, such as Judaism, Protestantism, Indigenous Shamanic Religions and African Religions, all condemned as heresies, witchcraft, subject to persecution by the Inquisition. The Catholic Church was the common enemy of Jews and Protestants, who maintained affinities and networks of sociability, which contemplated business and the reading of Sacred Texts. With the Dutch domination in the Northeast, especially, at Nassau’s time, there was a certain religious tolerance, watched over by the Calvinist clerics, who were jealous of their doctrines.