Folk Religion

Brief information about Folk Religion

Folk religion consists of ethnic or regional religious customs under an organized religion. Folk religion is described as "the totality of all those views and practices of religion that exist among the people apart from and alongside of the official religion". There is sometimes tension between the practice of folk religion and the formally taught and teachings of a faith, practices that originated in folk religion are adopted as part of the official religion. The term is also used, especially by the faiths involved, to describe the desire of people who infrequently attend religious worship, do not belong to a church or similar religious society, and who have not made a formal profession of faith in a particular creed, to have religious weddings or funerals, or (among Christians) to have their children baptised.