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
Read more about this topic: Rites Of Passage
Famous quotes containing the word religious:
“Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)
“American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when it concerns itself with religious dogma or political theory, is extraordinarily timid and superficial ... [I]t evades the genuinely serious problems of art and life as if they were stringently taboo ... [T]he outward virtues it undoubtedly shows are always the virtues, not of profundity, not of courage, not of originality, but merely those of an emasculated and often very trashy dilettantism.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“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)