religious tradition
Ancestral worship practices
A religious tradition is a system of spiritual beliefs, practices, and rituals passed down through generations within a community.
The term encompasses major world religions like Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, as well as indigenous practices and folk customs.
It implies continuity and shared heritage: Our family follows the Jewish religious tradition.
The phrase often appears in contexts emphasizing respect for diverse faiths or distinguishing one practice from another.
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- faith communityReligious group sharing beliefs
- prayerAddress to deity
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- crossPass from side to side
theology · canon law · syncretism · iconography · Torah · belief · divine revelation · virtue · scripture · holy book · eschatology · karma · sacrament · rite of passage · schism · Bible · congregation · house of worship
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Abraham, God
- Yiddish LiteratureYiddish theater, Sholem Aleichem, folktales, literary journals
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
- Yiddish theaterYiddish theater, Second Avenue
religious traditionsecularism
Separation of faith, state
secular humanism · materialism · atheism · rationalism · scientific worldview
religious traditionspiritual but not religious
Personal faith, no denomination
religious traditionatheism
Rejection of deities
irreligion · nonbelief · agnosticism · anti-theism · godlessness