'religious characteristics' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about characteristics that are associated with a particular religion. For example, "Hinduism is known for its religious characteristics such as its caste system and numerous gods."
Sudan's traditional societies have diverse linguistic, ethnic, social, cultural, and religious characteristics.
The demographic, geographic, racial and religious characteristics of the pierced, it found, were not much different from those of the unpierced.
Although Saya San's revolt was basically political (it was the last genuine attempt to restore the Burmese monarchy) and possessed strong religious characteristics, its causes were basically economic.
Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and an advocate of charter schools, said he supported allowing charter schools to keep some religious characteristics.
The results show that individual opinions toward suicide are influenced by individual belief as well as by the cultural and religious characteristics of their country.
For many years, researchers of organ transplantation have primarily studied the differences in ethnic, cultural and religious characteristics of organ donors across the United States.
In contrast to the ethnically German re-patriates who immigrated from Central and Eastern Europe in large numbers and represent the second largest immigrant group the citizens with a Turkish background often share the same language as well as ethnic and religious (Muslim) characteristics that are different from the ethnically German and predominately Christian majority.
Ziggurat, pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia (now mainly in Iraq) from approximately 2200 until 500 bce.
But they tended to eschew the religious enthusiasm characteristic of the more pietistic Protestant sects.
The law provides for longer sentences on conviction for crimes motivated by racial, religious and other characteristics of a victim.
"There is a sense that people who are publicly displaying their religious or ethnic characteristics are a slap in the face of French applied political theory".
