religious identity
What you believe
Religious identity is a person's sense of belonging to a particular faith tradition, denomination, or spiritual community.
It encompasses beliefs, practices, and cultural heritage that shape how someone sees themselves and relates to others.
Religious identity may be deeply held or nominal, inherited or chosen: She struggled to reconcile her religious identity with her sexuality.
For some, it intertwines with ethnic or national identity; for others, it remains purely a matter of personal conviction.
- templeSacred worship structure
- sectBreakaway religious faction
- prayerAddress to deity
- denominationNamed religious group
- creedStatement of belief
faith · cross · ecumenism · sectarianism · tradition · rite of passage · apostasy · symbolism · conversion · lapsed Catholic · scripture · holy book · theology · dogma · icon · worship · house of worship · congregation
- identityself, selfhood, self-expression, self-image, self-concept
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- religious nationalismtheocracy, state religion, Zionism, Islamism, caliphate
- Balkan HistoryBalkans, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro
- Campus Faithcampus ministry, chapel services, chaplaincy, faith community, prayer group
- Catholic historypapacy, Vatican, Pope, dioceses, Catholic Church
religious identityethnic identity
Belonging to ancestral group
national identity · racial identity · cultural identity · political identity · civic identity
religious identitysecularism
Separation of faith, state
atheism · godlessness · unbelief · antitheism
religious identityirreligion
Absence of faith
atheism · agnosticism · secularism · lack of faith · spiritual but not religious