worship practices
Sacred devotional activities
Worship practices are the rituals, ceremonies, and observances through which people express devotion to a deity or sacred principle.
These include prayer, singing, meditation, sacrifice, pilgrimage, and communal gatherings.
The phrase appears most often in comparative religion or legal contexts discussing religious freedom: The court ruled that the regulation did not unduly burden their worship practices.
- prayerAddress to deity
- silent prayerVoiceless religious entreaty
- call to prayerReligious worship summons
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- liturgyFormal worship structure
sacred ritual · religious observance · meditation · prostration · psalms · sanctuary · clergy · pilgrimage · chanting · fasting · hymns · giving thanks · altar · congregation · storytelling · incense · lighting candles · ablution
worship practicescommercial activities
Business transactions collectively
recreational activities · entertainment · social clubs · recreation · political rallies
worship practicesblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
sacrilege · desecration · profanation · irreverence · iconoclasm
worship practicesapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
deconversion · irreligion · secular humanism · godlessness · agnosticism