The word 'worshiper' is correct and usable in written English.
A worshiper is someone who shows devotion or reverence to a deity or religious figure. It can also refer to someone who admires or idolizes someone or something. Example: The devoted worshipers gathered in the church to sing hymns and pray to God. Example: She was a worshiper of nature and spent hours hiking in the mountains, admiring the beauty of the world.
Visitors are confronted with endless reflections of themselves juxtaposed with images of the Buddha, breaking down the barrier between the worshiper and the worshiped.
The essay (in Castle's recent collection, "The Professor") zings right to the heart of a relationship built on the mutual neediness of the worshiper and the worshiped, in part because she's able to step back and recognize the inanity.
If a woman is, in certain rituals, made the object of sexual worship, the Goddess is first invoked into her; the worshiper is not to cohabit with her until his mind is free from impurity and he has risen to divine status.
Designed on the rising crest of the Counter-Reformation, which understood well the importance of preaching to reclaim errant congregations, hall churches minimized the long space from entrance to altar, thus placing the worshiper much closer to the proceedings.
The ark is reached by steps and is commonly placed so that the worshiper facing it also "faces Jerusalem".
According to Vedantadeshika's interpretation of prapatti (surrender to the grace of God), some effort is required on the part of the worshiper to secure God's grace, just as the baby monkey must hold to its mother (the markata-nyaya, or the "analogy of the monkey").
In the modern Roman Catholic church, on Ash Wednesday the worshiper receives a cross marked on the forehead with the ashes obtained by burning the palms used on the previous Palm Sunday.
In performing the rite, the worshiper circles the lamp three times in a clockwise direction while chanting a prayer or singing a hymn.
In the four months following his return to Rome in February 68, his delirious pretensions as both an artist and a religious worshiper aroused the enmity not only of the Senate and those patricians who had been dispossessed by him but also of the Italian middle class, which had old-fashioned moral views and which furnished most of the officers of the army.
The worshiper, by beginning in the east and keeping the sacred object on his right-hand side, proceeds to the south, thus moving in the direction followed daily by the course of the sun.
The worshiper, when he sees this brilliance, is struck with wonder.
