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The objective of this research is to discuss the broadening of the Catholic Church to include the Afro-Brazilian religions, having in focus the "inculturated" masses liturgy (or Afromasses) in which elements from Afro-Brazilian religions (mainly from candomblé) are adopted.In São Paulo, for example, the icon of those celebrations is the "Black Mother Mass", one that happens around the third Sunday of May and that approximates catholic imaginaries (such as that of Nossa Senhora Aparecida) and the heritage of readings of the mother and the women during slavery (a reading made by Gilberto Freyre).Besides the problems associated with this imaginary, about which there exists a good number of material available, this research turns to the question about how this Catholicism approximates itself, in the range of theological and liturgical concepts (in as much from the point of view of Catholic and Afro-Brazilian priests as that of believers of both systems).This research was done in the city of São Paulo, specifically in two churches: Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos, at the Largo do Paissandu and Nossa Senhora Achiropita, at Bela Vista, where are performed "inculturated" rituals (masses, baptisms, marriages).These churches are emblematic: the first one, may represent the "appropriation" of Catholicism by the black; and the second one, the "appropriation" of the Afro-Brazilian religions by the Catholicism.In such a way the Catholic Church would be giving continuity in the theological and liturgical space of the church to a process of "culturalization" of these religions.A process that is verified in the national society in a wider mode

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