Abstract
This paper is located in between the disciplinary fields of law and the social sciences and investigates the institutional treatment of religious intolerance in Brazil, particularly in the state of Minas Gerais. This empirical research privileges the qualitative and quantitative analysis of primary data, taken from police reports registered between 2016 and 2018, and uses mainly the procedures of data collection and content analysis. The work restores the main results of a postdoctoral research that aimed initially to identify how the demands based on religious intolerance from the social code to the specialized code of law are translated. An additional objective in the investigation process was to analyze the possibility of the emergence of religious intolerance as a public problem, under the terms developed by Daniel Cefaï, taking into account the treatment given to it by the institutions, especially the Civil Police. The results point to difficulties in this translation, which may prevent the emergence of religious intolerance as a public problem, as well as the opportunity to reflect on other social technologies, non-legal, to address the issue of intolerance.
Law; religion; intolerance; police reports; public problem