religious ceremony
religious ritual | a ceremony having religious meaning |
| rite religious rite | an established ceremony prescribed by a religion, the rite of baptism |
service religious service
divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
Oblation
religious offering | the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist |
religious residence
cloister | residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
religion
faith
religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny, he lost his faith but not his morality |
cult
cultus
religious cult | a system of religious beliefs and rituals, devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin |
mysticism
religious mysticism | a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality |
| religious orientation | an attitude toward religion or religious practices |
sacred text
sacred writing
religious writing
religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
religious doctrine
church doctrine
gospel creed | the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group |
religious music
church music | genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies |
| religious song | religious music for singing |
sect religious sect
religious order | a subdivision of a larger religious group |
Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends
Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
| religious school | a school run by a religious body |
| religious right | United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools |
| religious movement | a movement intended to bring about religious reforms |
| religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
adviser
advisor
consultant | an expert who gives advice, an adviser helped students select their courses, the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala |
heretic
misbeliever
religious outcast | a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
investment adviser
investment advisor | someone who advises others how to invest their money |
military adviser
military advisor | a military officer who serves as an adviser to the troops of an allied nation |
mystic
religious mystic | someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension |
| religious | a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience |
| religious leader | leader of a religious order |
| confidential adviser-advisee relation | the responsibility of a confidential adviser to act in the best interest of the advisee |
religious festival
church festival | a festival having religious significance |
religious holiday
holy day | a day specified for religious observance |
| religious | of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows, the religious or regular clergy conducts the service |
| religious | having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity, a religious man, religious attitude |
| quasi-religious | resembling something that is religious |
religious
spiritual | concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church, religious texts, a member of a religious order, lords temporal and spiritual, spiritual leaders, spiritual songs |
| religious | extremely scrupulous and conscientious, religious in observing the rules of health |