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:
“We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper. At any meeting of politicians ... how impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man’s own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)