religionists
Devoted spiritual practitioners
Religionists are people devoted to religion, especially those who make religion central to their worldview or identity.
The term often carries a slightly dismissive tone, used by secular speakers to characterize those they see as excessively focused on religious doctrine: The religionists want to impose their values on everyone else.
Less commonly, it simply means adherents of a particular faith.
One who performs sacraments
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- imamMuslim religious guide
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- guruRevered authority figure
monk · nun · cleric · pastor · preacher · evangelist · missionary · theologian
One who accepts something
- devoteeZealous admirer or follower
- followerOne who supports another
- discipleCommitted follower of teaching
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
practitioner · congregant · parishioner · layperson · pilgrim · convert · proselyte · zealot
Religious reverence and praise
- prayerAddress to deity
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
meditation · devotion · observance · sacrament · liturgy · ceremony · offering · chanting
Trust without proof
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- creedStatement of belief
- tenetHeld principle or doctrine
theology · orthodoxy · piety · spirituality · reverence · salvation · providence · transcendence
priest
One who performs sacraments
guru · monk · nun · cleric · pastor · preacher · evangelist · missionary · theologian · bishop
believer
One who accepts something
- devoteeZealous admirer or follower
- followerOne who supports another
- discipleCommitted follower of teaching
faithful · practitioner · congregant · parishioner · layperson · pilgrim · convert · proselyte · zealot · fundamentalist
worship
Religious reverence and praise
- prayerAddress to deity
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
fasting · meditation · devotion · observance · sacrament · liturgy · ceremony · offering · chanting · prostration
faith
Trust without proof
tenet · theology · orthodoxy · piety · spirituality · reverence · salvation · providence · transcendence · afterlife
religionistsatheists
Those without religious faith
nonbelievers · unbelievers · infidels · agnostics · godless
religionistsrationalists
Advocates of reasoned thinking
empiricists · materialists · secularists · naturalists · positivists
religionistssecularists
Advocates for nonreligious governance
irreligious · nonreligious · areligious · unchurched · apostates