This article addresses issues relating to the Legal Anthropology and the Anthropology of Religion, creating a link between these areas through religious issues. This topic forms part of a broader discussion on the relationship between the nation state and religious freedom, in which the State takes on the role of regulator of the diversity of religious manifestations, using certain notions of religion, which are not necessarily explicitly presented. The various manifestations of intolerance towards Afro-Brazilian religions within the religious camp, such as in relation to the public space and the state’s aparates, have been adopted as the subject matter of the study. The reason why my study focused on religious intolerance was to bring to academic research the importance of the interface between the anthropological study and the legal field from the elucidation of conflicts in the Afro-religious camp.