religious obedience
Devout following of rules
Religious obedience is submission to the authority of a religious institution, its leaders, or its teachings.
In monastic traditions, obedience is one of the vows taken alongside poverty and chastity—a commitment to follow the direction of superiors as an expression of devotion to God.
More broadly, religious obedience describes following divine commandments or church doctrine: Her religious obedience meant she never questioned the priest's guidance.
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- genuflectBend knee reverently
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- prostrateLying fully extended
- bowing headLowering one's face respectfully
devotion · bow · humility · humble servant · asceticism · monastic life · supplicate · submission · divine will · hierarchy · clergy · novitiate · holy orders · prayer · act of contrition · self-denial · kneel · doctrine
- obediencecompliance, subordination, deference, docility, subservience
- religious vowsfinal vows, chastity, monastic vows, perpetual vows, celibacy
religious obediencepersonal autonomy
Control over one's choices
self-determination · free will · freethinking · self-governance · libertinism
religious obedienceirreligion
Absence of faith
secularism · secular humanism · godlessness · worldliness · freethought
religious obedienceheresy
Belief opposing official doctrine
apostasy · breaking vows · blasphemy · sacrilege · insubordination
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