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Practices

Respect, reverence, strong admiration or devotion in a certain person, place, or thing

Lifestyle of frugality and abstinence of various forms, often for spiritual goals

State of voluntary sexual abstinence

Cult (religious practice)

Devotion to a deity, person or thing

Prayer and gestures that are perceived to bring divine intervention in physical healing

Person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration

Willing abstinence from some, or reduced consumption of, food, drink or both, for a period of time

Religious ritual intended to stimulate reproduction

Belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established belief or customs

Person who lives in seclusion from society

Icon (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

The destruction of religious images

Customary public worship performed by a religious group

Person who suffers persecution

Practice of mindfulness

Member of a monastic religious order

Provider of prophecies or insights

Journey or search of moral or spiritual significance

Invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity

Message that is claimed by a prophet to have been communicated to them by a deity

Person claimed to speak for a divine being

Attempt to convert others to a religion

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Physical remains or personal effects of a saint or venerated person

Religious conversion

Adoption of religious beliefs

Religious ecstasy

Altered state of consciousness

Retreat (spiritual)

Period of reflection, prayer, or meditation, practiced communally or in solitude

The revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity

Rite of passage (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Activities performed according to a set sequence

Offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity

Saint (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Speaking in tongues

Phenomenon in which people speak words apparently in languages unknown to them

Spiritual practice

Regular or full-time performance of actions and activities undertaken for the purpose of inducing spiritual experiences and cultivating spiritual development

Religious donation

The act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness

Veneration of the dead

Cultural or religious practice

Vision (spirituality)

Something seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy

Act of religious devotion