religious fasting
Devotional food abstention
Religious fasting is the practice of abstaining from food, drink, or certain foods as a spiritual discipline.
Nearly every major religion includes fasting traditions—Ramadan in Islam, Yom Kippur in Judaism, Lent in Christianity.
The practice may serve as penance, purification, or preparation for sacred occasions.
Duration and strictness vary widely: some fasts last a single day, others a month; some permit water, others nothing at all.
- Tisha B'AvJewish fast commemorating calamities
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- holy monthReligiously significant period
- sunrise to sunsetPeriod of natural light
- hungerNeed for nourishment
empty stomach · prayer · asceticism · starvation · Yom Kippur · atonement · Navratri · meditation · spiritual renewal · spiritual cleansing · tribal ceremonies · Jainism · purification · divine connection · self-denial · moral discipline · breaking · breaking fast
- FastingRamadan, Yom Kippur, water fast, breaking fast, dry fast
- religious dutiesdaily prayer, hajj, zakat, salat, Ramadan
- religious dietvegetarianism, lacto-vegetarian, no meat, meatless, food purity
- dietary restrictionsallergies, vegetarianism, food allergies, veganism, vegan
- faith healingfaith healing, faith healers, faith healer, divine healing, healing prayer
- spiritual carechaplaincy, spiritual care, spiritual counseling, soul care, healing prayer
religious fastingfeasting
Eating sumptuously together
gluttony · gorging · banqueting · binge eating · overindulgence
religious fastingreligious feast
Commemorative sacred occasion
communion meal · Eucharist · thanksgiving feast · Passover Seder · Easter feast
religious fastinghedonism
Pursuit of gratification
epicureanism · sybaritism · bodily pleasure · self-gratification · libertinism