devout followers
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
- zealotsFanatical cause followers
- believersThose having faith
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
pilgrims · worshippers · flock · adherents · devotees · apostles · pious · fervent · reverent · true believers · acolytes · saints · martyrs · converts · brethren · prayer · altar · shrine
commitment level
devout followersapostates
Those who abandon belief
backsliders · Sunday Christians · secular Jews · fence-sitters
role in relation to authority
devout followersheretics
Rejectors of official doctrine
dissenters · defectors · rebels · apostates · critics
independence of thought
devout followersfreethinkers
Independent-minded questioners of orthodoxy
skeptics · critical thinkers · questioners · doubters · nonconformists