religious duties
Faith-mandated practices
Religious duties are the obligations a believer owes to their faith—prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, observance of holy days, charitable giving.
The phrase often appears in legal or workplace contexts involving accommodation: She requested time off for religious duties.
What counts as a religious duty varies by tradition; some are prescribed by scripture, others by clergy or community expectation.
- daily prayersScheduled religious observances
- ablutionRitualized washing of body
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- prayerAddress to deity
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
blessing · almsgiving · charity · ritual · hajj · sacrifice · supplication · stewardship · fellowship · hospitality · salat · scripture · reading scripture · forgiveness · godparenthood · mitzvot · baptism · confession booth
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- social obligationscourtesy, politeness, greeting, thank you, apology
- Hawaiian kapukapu system, taboo, taboos, tabu, kahuna
- Jewish ethicsmitzvot, tikkun olam, Torah study, good deeds, righteousness
- Spartaagoge, helots, phalanx, Spartans, Leonidas
religious dutiespersonal freedoms
Rights individuals possess inherently
religious freedoms · leisure activities · recreational activities · free time · self-indulgence
religious dutiessins
Violations of moral law
transgressions · sacrilege · blasphemy · impiety · profanation