Religious
- Annaprashana
- Baptism (Christening)
- Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Judaism
- Circumcision, mainly in Judaism (Bris)
- Confirmation
- Confirmation in Reform Judaism
- Diving for the Cross, in some Orthodox Christian churches
- First Eucharist and First Confession (especially First Communion in Catholicism)
- Hajj
- Rumspringa
- Saṃskāra a series of sacraments in Hinduism
- Shinbyu in Theravada Buddhism
- Vision quest in some Native American cultures
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Famous quotes containing the word religious:
“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“God from the mount of Sinai, whose grey top
Shall tremble, he descending, will himself
In thunder lightning and loud trumpets’ sound
Ordain them laws; part such as appertain
To civil justice, part religious rites
Of sacrifice, informing them, by types
And shadows, of that destined seed to bruise
The serpent, by what means he shall achieve
Mankind’s deliverance.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)