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#REDIRECT [[Folk religion#Folk Christianity]]
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[[Image:Botanica.jpg|right|333px|right|thumb|[[Botánica]]s such as this one in [[Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts|Jamaica Plain]], [[Massachusetts]] sell religious goods such as statues of [[saint]]s and [[candle]]s decorated with [[prayer]]s alongside [[folk medicine]] and [[amulets]].]]
'''Folk Christianity''' is defined differently by various scholars. Definitions include "the Christianity practiced by a conquered people;"<ref>Brown, Peter Robert Lamont (2003). ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-S9N1h_RS-IC&pg=PA341 The rise of Western Christendom].'' Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 0631221387, p 341. Last accessed July 2009.</ref> Christianity as most people live it - a term used to "overcome the the division of beliefs into Orthodox and unorthodox;"<ref>Rock, Stella (2007). ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dNpcEtoAk4YC&pg=PA11 Popular religion in Russia].'' Routledge ISBN 0415317711, p 11. Last accessed July 2009.</ref> Christianity as impacted by superstition as practiced by certain geographical Christian groups;<ref>Snape, Michael Francis (2003). [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hl4EiL6CeVgC&pg=PA45 The Church of England in industrialising society]. Boydell Press, ISBN 1843830140, p 45. Last accessed July 2009</ref> Christianity defined "in cultural terms without reference to the theologies and histories."<ref>Corduan, Winfried (1998). ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pZW6nwbyW5kC&pg=PA37&dq Neighboring faiths: a Christian introduction to world religions].'' InterVarsity Press, ISBN 0830815244, p 37. Last accessed July 2009.</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[Benedicaria]]
* [[Christian mythology]]
* [[Espiritismo]]
* [[Folk religion]]
* [[Hoodoo (folk magic)|Hoodoo]]
* [[Palo Mayombe]]
* [[Santeria]]
* [[Pow-wow (folk magic)|Speilwork]]
* [[West African Vodun]]
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* Allen, Catherine. ''The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community.'' Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989; second edition, 2002.
* Badone, Ellen, ed. ''Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European Society.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
* Bastide, Roger. ''The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations.'' Trans. by Helen Sebba. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
* Brintnal, Douglas. ''Revolt against the Dead: The Modernization of a Mayan Community in the Highlands of Gatemala.'' New York: Gordon and Breach, 1979.
* Christian, William A., Jr. ''Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
* Johnson, Paul Christopher. ''Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
* Nutini, Hugo. ''Ritual Kinship: Ideological and Structural Integration of the Compadrazgo System in Rural Tlaxcala.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
* Nutini, Hugo. ''Todos Santos in Rural Tlaxcala: A Syncretic, Expressive, and Symbolic Analysis of the Cult of the Dead.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
* Taylor, Lawrence J. ''Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics.'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
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