fasting traditions
Ritual food abstention
Fasting traditions are religious or cultural practices of abstaining from food, drink, or certain substances for prescribed periods.
Most major religions include fasting—Ramadan in Islam, Yom Kippur in Judaism, Lent in Christianity, Ekadashi in Hinduism.
The purposes vary: spiritual purification, penance, solidarity with the hungry, or marking sacred occasions.
Their family observed strict fasting traditions during holy days.
- LentChristian fasting season
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- holy monthReligiously significant period
- iftarSunset meal ending fast
- breaking fastEnding a period without food
sunrise to sunset · abstinence · water fast · dry fast · Yom Kippur · Navratri · autophagy · prayer rituals · Tisha B'Av · religious observance · penitence · customary practices · sacrifice · purification · spiritual cleansing · intermittent · empty stomach · atonement
- Orthodox Theologydeification, Church Fathers, ecclesiology, dogmatics, Nicene Creed
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, burial rite, folk costumes, folk traditions
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
- Eastern OrthodoxyEastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodox
- Ethiopian Faithdrumming, processions, monastic orders, monastic life, hermits
- Slavic OrthodoxyOrthodox Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Cyril and Methodius
fasting traditionsfeast days
Religious celebration dates
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