prayer practices
Spiritual communication habits
Prayer practices are the specific methods, rituals, or disciplines through which people pray.
The term encompasses everything from formal liturgical traditions to personal devotional habits: Her prayer practices include morning meditation and evening gratitude.
Different religious traditions emphasize different prayer practices—recitation, contemplation, intercession, chanting, or silent centering.
- adorationProfound loving regard
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- supplicationHumble plea for help
contemplation · thanksgiving · petition · meditation · confession · beads · prostration · rosary · healing · silent retreat · temple · salat · incense · kneeling · gratitude · mosque · guidance · daily devotions
- prayerintercession, supplication, novenas, novena, intercessor
- spiritual carechaplaincy, spiritual care, spiritual counseling, soul care, healing prayers
- Christianizationmissionary work, forced conversion, Catholic missions, colonial missions, church planting
- Second TempleSecond Temple, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Maccabees
- seminaryseminaries, divinity school, seminarian, seminary training, formation
- Modern Worshipcontemporary worship, worship bands, praise music, worship songs, worship leaders
prayer practicesmindfulness practice
Intentional awareness training
journaling · freethought · psychotherapy · scientific reasoning
prayer practicesgodlessness
Lack of belief
irreligion · secularism · agnosticism · commercial activities