religious rituals
Worship's formal observances
Religious rituals are formalized practices performed as part of worship or spiritual observance—prayers, ceremonies, sacraments, and prescribed behaviors that mark sacred occasions.
They range from daily devotions to elaborate rites of passage: baptism, bar mitzvah, funeral rites.
The phrase often carries slight skepticism, implying rote performance over genuine faith: He goes through the religious rituals without really believing.
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- holy waterSacramental liquid for blessings
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- prayerAddress to deity
- call to prayerReligious worship summons
Easter · veneration · ablution · pilgrimage · anointing · laying on hands · trance dance · festivals · hymn · smudging · meditation · communion · breaking bread · funeral · libation · sweat lodge · sacred fire · confession
- folk traditionsfolk songs, folk dance, folk dances, folk tunes, folklore
- Roman religionJupiter, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Neptune
- Indian Performancekathak, mudras, classical drama, folk theater, court dance
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
- IranIran, Tehran, Isfahan, Persia, Shiraz
- faith familiesfamily devotions, family prayer, family worship, family Bible, family altar
religious ritualssacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
blasphemy · desecration · profanation · secular humanism · civil ceremonies