How you express devotion

The forms through which you express faith, devotion or spiritual practice.

A neutral, cross-tradition self-description of the forms your devotion or spiritual practice takes — if any. Shared only if you choose. (Cross-tradition modes of devotional practice)

Groups

• Personal prayer — Private prayer, supplication or talking with the divine.
• Communal worship — Services, congregation and worshipping together.
• Meditation & contemplation — Stillness, contemplative or mindful practice.
• Sacred study — Reading and studying scripture or sacred texts.
• Service & charity — Acts of service, kindness and giving as devotion.
• Ritual & sacrament — Rites, sacraments and ceremonial observance.
• Chant, song & music — Devotional singing, chanting or sacred music.
• Fasting & abstinence — Fasting, abstinence or ascetic discipline.
• Pilgrimage & sacred places — Visiting holy sites and places of meaning.
• Nature & creation — Finding the sacred in nature and the created world.

Related topics

• How religious you are
• Observances you keep
• What you turn to faith for
• Religious & spiritual struggles
• Religious orientation

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