WordNet
n. a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances [syn: ecstatic state]
Usage examples of "religious trance".
A kind of religious trance affected some of the converted Indians, and this greatly influenced the doubting ones.
Mr Perez finds his wife standing in front of the steam press, staring into space, tears streaming down her cheeks, invoking Father, Son, Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary, and very clearly in some kind of religious trance.
Jaysu felt the sudden alarm when the Emperor shouted, and she broke free of the religious trance to turn and look upward.
A brothel full of them in Memphis went into a religious trance ran naked into the street.
Usually in the presence of witnesses, he would go into a religious trance, rise into the air, fly about, eventualy settle on an altar or in a tree.