2019-07-302019-07-302019-07-302019-06-10https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/prefix/867Society is in constant transformation, having the right to follow the development of society, with all its advances and challenges, it is necessary to realize the right to protect animals in a new time, this one of formulation and mutation of concepts and paradigms disseminated in the community, aiming at achieving higher levels of effectiveness of the constitutional guarantees. In this work, we seek to approach the relationship in favor of the defense of non-human animals, in counterpoint to the establishment of traditional cultures, taking into account the place of vulnerability, verifying the national jurisprudential understanding and comparative law on the protection debate of culture and animal rights. Analyzing how it was possible to emphasize the protection afforded to animals in religious rituals, especially Africanborn cults, from the conformation between cults and animal rights with the judgment of extraordinary appeal No. 494.601.Acesso AbertoGarantias fundamentaisDireito comparadoProteção animalFundamental guaranteesComparative lawAnimal protectionTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoCiências Sociais AplicadasDireito