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The term is also applied to the blending of folk practice with those of major religions, so that folk practices amongst people in Christian countries are called " Folk Christianity ," in Islamic countries " Folk Islam ", and so on. The term is also used, especially by the Clergy of the faiths involved, to describe the desire of people who otherwise 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 Wedding s or Funeral s, or (among Christians) to have their children Baptised . Folk religion can also be thought of as the practice of religion by lay people outside of the control of Clergy or the supervision of Theologians (e.g. outside of organized religion -- Popular Culture ). There is occasionally tension between the practice of folk religion and the formally taught doctrines and teachings of a faith. For "folk religion" to be a meaningful category, there must be an institutional religion with a traditional teaching or professional clergy to contrast it against; in cultures that lack these things, it is difficult to speak of folk religion as a meaningful category. Folk religion answers human needs for reassurance in times of trouble, and many of its . In general, believers in these folk versions of a religion are usually not aware of any distinction between their folk practices and their official religion. No one consciously practices a folk religion or calls their own religious practices a folk religion. When awareness of the tension between folk religion and the formal creed of an institutional religion rises to conscious levels, and the folk religion successfully resists that tension, it is well on its way to becoming an institutional religion in its own right, and develops a body of Doctrine of its own to justify its continued practice against the institutional opposition. The Folk Religion with the largest number of adherents is the Chinese Folk Religion . EXAMPLES
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