praxis

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Praxis is practice in the sense of simply doing something, either in the present or regularly. Praxis does not include rehearsal or training, for which the "real" action in question will happen in the future. For example, if musicians play a certain kind of music regularly, that is their praxis; if they rehearse for a performance or to improve their skill, that is the other sense of practice. Praxis can also mean application - the putting of theory into practice. The term may refer to:

• Christian theological praxis
• Praxis (Eastern Orthodoxy), the practice of faith, especially worship
• Praxis (process), the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, practiced, embodied, or realized
• The Praxis School, a school of Marxist philosophy
  • Praxis (journal), a journal of the Praxis School
  • Praxis International, the continuation of Praxis (journal) and predecessor of Constellations (journal)
• Praxis Journal of Philosophy, a journal of philosophy of the University of Manchester
• Praxis intervention, in social work, a methodology for intervention within communities
• Praxis test, a United States teacher certification exam
• Praxis (moth), a genus of moth in the subfamily Calpinae

Entertainment

• Praxis (band), a Bill Laswell musical project
• Praxis (album), by Cecil Taylor recorded in Italy in July 1968
• Praxis (television show), a panel discussion on international development
• Praxis (moon), a fictional planetary body in the Star Trek universe

• Praxis effect, the name given to a particular special effect, named after the above

• The Praxis, a novel by Walter Jon Williams
• Praxis, a Metanat in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
• Praxis (Underground city), a fictional large city located in Hollow Earth. It is sometimes referred to simply as "the underground city" in the SyFy series Sanctuary.
• Praxis Records, an electronic music record label based in Berlin, Germany.

Other uses

• Altran Praxis, a British software company
• Praxis Care, a social care charity based in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Praxis (store), a Dutch Hardware store-chain
• Praxis Rabemananjara, Malagasy footballer
• Praxis Ethiopia, international organisation dealing with the poverty in Ethiopia

See also

• Practice (disambiguation)
• Practical
• Praxeology
• Praksis
• Antonio Gramsci

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