The Role and Rationality of Religion: The Case of Brazil

Religion has long played a very important role in different cultures and it is natural to imagine that when there is more instability or the deaths and crime rates are growing there are more loses and therefore more people look for consolation in religion. If that was the case there should be much more religiosity in Latin America less developed countries which is not true. In fact the United States register a very high percentage of people, especially Christians which represents 78.3% of the population Pew Research Center [1] that consider religion an important part in their lives although it has one of the lowest crime rates of the world. So culture, family traditions as well as other reasons might play a very important role in the decision of joining a religion to strengthen ones believes.