religious practice
Spiritual discipline followed
Religious practice refers to the rituals, observances, and behaviors through which people express their faith—prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, attendance at services, dietary restrictions, and similar acts.
The term often appears in legal contexts distinguishing protected conduct from mere belief: The law guarantees freedom of religious practice.
A person's religious practices may be strict or lax, orthodox or idiosyncratic.
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- hymn singingVocalizing religious songs
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
charity · liturgy · contemplation · pilgrimage · congregation · scripture reading · reading aloud · sacrament · meditation · asceticism · icons · processions · ablution · ritual · prayer · daily prayers · call to prayer · saying grace
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- IslamAllah, Quran, Muhammad, Mecca, Ramadan
- Folkwayscustom, folk belief, folk remedy, folk medicine, folk song
- prisoner rightslegal counsel, medical care, fair trial, humane treatment, visitation
- Muslim diasporaMuslim community, Islamic community, mosques, Islamic centers, Muslim communities
- war lawGeneva Conventions, laws of war, Hague Conventions, humanitarian law, military protocol
religious practiceirreligion
Absence of faith
secularism · atheism · agnosticism · nonbelief · godlessness
religious practiceimpiety
Irreverence toward the divine
irreverence · ungodliness · apostasy · disaffiliation · non-participation