religious observances
Worship and devotions
Religious observances are practices performed as part of one's faith—rituals, ceremonies, prayers, fasts, or holy day celebrations prescribed by a religious tradition.
The phrase often appears in legal or institutional contexts concerning accommodation: The university excuses absences for religious observances.
Observance here means keeping or following, as in observing a rule or custom.
- DiwaliHindu festival of lights
- massQuantity of matter
- church serviceOrganized Christian worship gathering
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- call to prayerReligious worship summons
daily prayers · prayer · Sabbath · High Holy Days · altar · holy days · Ash Wednesday · Lenten sacrifice · pilgrimage · baptism · rituals · sacred rites · festivals · repentance · Yom Kippur · charity · ablution · hajj
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, burial rite, folk costumes, folk traditions
- mitzvotmitzvah, mitzvot, commandments, Torah laws, halakhah
- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, wedding, fireworks
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- almanacscalendar, calendars, Farmers Almanac, Old Farmer's Almanac, lunar calendar
- Jewish holidaysPassover, Hanukkah, Pesach, Purim, Rosh Hashanah
devotion vs. neglect
religious observancesapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
irreligion · impiety · sacrilege · godlessness · faithlessness