WordNet
religious ritual
n. a ceremony having religious meaning [syn: religious ceremony]
Usage examples of "religious ritual".
Jessica felt the religious ritual in the words, noted her own instinctively awed response.
Many of the prayers and incantations continued to be recited by the priests in Sumerian, which remained the language of religious ritual and liturgy long after it had ceased to be a spoken language, much as Latin continued, and still continues, to be the liturgical language of the Church.
The Pharisees were the Temple party and stood for strict observance of every minor religious ritual.
Biswas's distaste for religious ritual, he was immediately attracted by this ceremony.
No doubt there is a danger of religious ritual, especially when its meaning is lost, being engaged in for its own sake.