Catholicism and Zen Buddhism : a vision of the religious field in Brazil

![CDATA[In the twentieth century one sees an immense expansion of religions, or as Pierre Bourdieu puts it, the expansion of the market of symbolic goods.1 After the 1950s, with territory redefinitions, mass urbanisation, implementation of means of mass communication, internationalisation of economy and immense migratory flows, new life expectations were created. Likewise, these changes rendered local worlds permeable to transcultural flows.2 Inside this complex panorama we will make a study of Zen Buddhism in Brazil, the country with the largest Catholic population in the world.]]