"religious discipline" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in a sentence to refer to the doctrines and practices observed by an individual or a group following an organized religion. For example: John diligently follows the religious discipline set forth by the Church of England.
But her religious discipline is rarely an overt presence in her texts.
Ash Wednesday expresses the pangs and the strain involved in the acceptance of religious belief and religious discipline.
They come from communities where the family is all-important and parental and religious discipline reign supreme.
I embraced my dereliction as a religious discipline; it was as if I were a monk sworn to an order devoted to affirming God's original world.
Traditionalists see this as the equivalent of barhopping by a generation that values self-fulfillment and personal freedom over religious discipline and duty.
Folios produced under Shah Jahan are more formal than natural, with much attention paid to clothing as a sign of rank or religious discipline.
The two disciplines were related, because both followed the path of rational inquiry and distinguished themselves from traditional religious disciplines and from mysticism, which sought knowledge through practical, spiritual purification.
Ramakrishna, as a direct result of his own spiritual experiences with various religious disciplines, including Christianity and Islam, fully endorsed the Hindu tenet that all religions are paths to the same goal.
These early texts, however, present us not only with the bearded wisdom of kindly sages but with evidence of meditational theories and religious disciplines that were systematized in the flourishing of Daoist religion after the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE).
Thus, the burden of the old karma is added to the new karma that is acquired during the next existence until the jiva frees itself by religious disciplines, especially by ahimsa ("nonviolence"), and rises to the place of liberated jivas at the top of the universe.
Spiritual knowledge is integrated within (Saraswati) by cultivating values and understanding religious disciplines.
