The fifth and sixth chapters focus on religious practices, both routine and occasional, individual and collective, engagement in which plays an important part in many people’s lives. Adherents participate in ritual practices to express and reinforce their beliefs, demonstrate their conception of religion and express or reinforce aspects of their understanding of society, the world and their place in it. Participation also displays and potentially strengthens their links with a particular tradition or group. In this chapter, everyday ritual practices associated with Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and folk religions are considered, with a focus, mainly for reasons of space, on those that honour and solicit help and guidance from spiritual powers or beings, seek to placate antagonistic forces or control unpredictable events, or acknowledge and alleviate guilt, rather than life cycle rituals. The available quantitative evidence is used to assess the frequency of participation amongst groups distinguished by their religious affiliation and other social characteristics, for example gender, and qualitative studies to probe the meaning of their engagement for those concerned.