This article examines some categories such as level of education, gender, race, and occupation in Afro-Bahian religions, through data produced by mapping of Candomblé terreiros/temples in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The mapping had as an objective to carry out a census of this universe searching for data related to religious leaderships such as race, level of education, gender, and occupation, as well as other data on these terreiros. We analyze the dynamics of the Afro-Bahian terreiros and how this can be observed in relation to the presence of leaderships with higher education, through categories like race and gender, mainly with the entrance of leadership that classified themselves as white.
Afro-Bahian temples; Salvador; race; level of education; gender