The quarrel of spirits: the "do not know what" that escapes the numbers of "no religion"

Abstract

The results released by the IBGE census of 2010 revealed that approximately fifteen million Brazilians declared themselves as "without religion". But what and whom would we be talking about exactly? What category would escape this census? For this population, does it become indifferent to require that life makes sense? Secularized consciousness or beliefs that escape adhesions? What is the imagery of "non-belief"? Necessary perspectives to a plural religious landscape, full of historical particularities, whose believes and belongings dialogue under the rhythm of subjective religious mobility. Under the bias of religious self-identification, there is a need for empirical research on the religious experience of subjects, on what weaves the religious happening, the "I do not know what" that the numbers do not reveal.