Paintings from the Espoo Cathedral in Finland. Photo by Tuomas Vehtola; Wikimedia Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en

What is "vernacular religion"? To define it loosely, it is the lived religious beliefs and practices of a people. Many of those things fit the mold of the canon of religion. However, the things that interest me the most are the things that are not a part of church teachings. This vernacular religion is often found in the modern day under the secular guise of "superstition" and "tradition" and represents the contemporary evolution of folk religion as we think of it. Most of th