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popular religion  

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  • Popular religion refers to a general, global, and omnipresent cultural and social aspect of religiosity. The notion has a somewhat ambiguous character since it designates (a) traditional forms of religiosity of the “common” people, also known as “folk” religion, and (b) mass cultural and (c) contemporary forms of late-modern or postmodern religiosity, both in churches as well as among lay persons. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Popular Religion]

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