"that exclusive religions can be seen to be incongruous due to their demanding unconditional and crystallised commitment. This includes Protestantism. Protestants, principally those belonging to the puritan church matrix, do not feel comfortable with this mixture of religions. Syncretism is seen as something suspect, impure and incorrect. It is, however, precisely within this melting pot of cultures and religions that Brazilians were produced. As such, conversion to Protestantism implies in giving up a certain amount of "brazilianness", almost always in favour of values that come from the countries in which Protestantism originated."1
1ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85, 79
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