religious observance
Devotional act performed
Religious observance is the practice of following religious customs, rituals, or requirements.
It covers both formal acts of worship and everyday duties prescribed by faith: attending services, keeping dietary laws, observing holy days, fasting, or prayer.
The company accommodates employees' religious observances.
The phrase often appears in legal contexts involving freedom of religion.
- SabbathWeekly religious rest day
- daily prayersScheduled religious observances
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- Lenten fastReligious pre-Easter restraint
- rosaryBeaded prayer counter
prayer · congregation · church service · liturgy · anointing · chanting · ablution · scripture reading · Yom Kippur · Ash Wednesday · Diwali · purification · baptism · vespers · synagogue service · Eid al-Fitr · pilgrimage · Eucharist
- cultural traditionsflamenco, tango, kabuki, hula, capoeira
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- Plymouth ColonyPlymouth Colony, Pilgrims, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, 1620
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- family dutiescaregiving, childcare, elder care, parenting, family support
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
religious observancesacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
irreligion · blasphemy · impiety · desecration · profanation
religious observanceirreligion
Absence of faith
atheism · secularism · nonbelief · godlessness · apostasy