religious practices

Faith-based worship customs

Religious practices are the actions, rituals, and observances through which people express or enact their faith.

These range from formal worship services and prayer to pilgrimages, fasting, meditation, and rites of passage like baptisms or bar mitzvahs.

The term encompasses both communal activities conducted in sacred spaces and private devotions performed at home.

Her religious practices include daily prayer and weekly attendance at mosque.

Related

call to prayer · prayer beads · daily devotions · scripture reading · prostration · hymn singing · pilgrimage · charity · religious vows · ablution · sacred dance · sacred fire · fasting · exorcism · rituals · anointing · laying on hands · communion

Categories
Opposites
sacred vs. secular orientation

religious practicescivil ceremonies

Official non-religious observances

commercial activities · secular humanism · state ceremonies

spiritual vs. materialist worldview

religious practicesirreligion

Absence of faith

godlessness · materialism · freethought · hedonism · skeptical inquiry

belief-based vs. empirical approaches

religious practicesscientific method

Structured process for investigation

secular humanism · skeptical inquiry · freethought · naturalism · agnosticism

Family

practice, religion, practitioner, religiosity

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G