The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the latest general review of the field of the anthropology of religion practiced in Brazil and which was published in the anthology Horizons of the Social Sciences in Brazil (Martins and Duarte 2010). One of the main points that we highlight for discussion in this article is the effect of the homogenization of this field of research in Brazil as it is promoted by the review under scrutiny. This equalization passes over a significant part of the work done in the North and Northeast of Brazil, leaving it invisible, and hence affecting, more fundamentally, the evaluation of the state of the area of research. In a response, we change the focus of analysis and reverse the map (turn it up side down). Taking the literature produced in the North and the Northeast as the focus of our reflection, we identify some "local agenda" that actually are in dialogue with, and participates in, the contemporary national and international agendas. In conclusion, both as an ethnographic area and as an academic contribution to the literature, the North and the Northeast distinctively contribute significantly to the national and international field of the anthropology of religion.
brazilian religious field; academic invisibility; anthropology