In Abrahamic religions, worships and rituals are the main teachings after believing in God.

I
wonder about some parts of worship and rituals in Abrahamic religion—especially Jewish
and Christian—and will examine Corrigan’s view on that. 

Worships and rituals in Abrahamic religions mean to be the servant of God as the Master and
become piety so someone will be near to God. Everyone who follows these religions is
prescribed to worship God. I will begin with Jewish worship and rituals. To decipher their
worships and rituals, it will be wise to know about the period of the temple—the first and
second-period temple. I have a comment on what Corrigan said about Jewish rituals, "Nearly
every month of the Jewish calendar has its special days and commemorations of events
within the sacred memory of Israel”. I have the assumption why Jewish people have a lot of
celebrations because they have some prominent figures based on their teaching such as
Moses, Jacob, David, Solomon, and so forth. Perhaps, when their religious figure experienced
a priceless moment for Israel, they will memorize and make a celebration for that day.

In Christianity, there are seven sacraments as the basic ritual for someone who embraces
Christianity. I wonder when they do the eucharist by eating bread and drinking wine as part
of the ritual. In Jurgensmeyer's book, we could see that such rituals in Christianity use the
symbol related to violence. Bread as the flesh of Jesus, red wine as the blood of Jesus, and the
cross—for Catholics as the salvation. They interpret those symbols to be appropriate and used
as a part of the ritual. Another thing that I need more explanation about is the pilgrimage to a
holy place. One of the famous places in the Middle Ages was Santiago de Compostela in
northwestern Spain, there is the tomb of the apostle of James. I wonder does Protestant
Christians also did the pilgrimage as Catholics do to the Vatican. Actually, the holy place for
Christian is Bethlehem, the place where Jesus and his disciple taught his religion. In fact, in
that place, there is a conflict between Islam, Jewish, and Christians did not interfere in the
conflict. If I would see from the Abrahamic religions, Jerusalem, Palestine is a place that is
sanctified among these religions. What a pity! Palestine, the land of the prophet right now
become the land of conflict.

The worships in Islam are mentioned in Quran and hadith as the source of Islamic teaching.
Somehow, there are differences among fuqaha about the interpretation of practicing worships
—not in principal teaching. I will correct what Corrigan has said about impurities in Islam.
He did not separate the impurification term in Islam, namely hadath and najis. Hadath means
impurities that cannot be seen (ma’nawiy) and najis means the impurities that can be seen
(dzahir). Having contact with a dog is not a hadath. It is merely najis that need to be removed
with water seven times and dirt instead of performing wudhu’. Meanwhile, the rest of the
explanation of worships and rituals in Islam is well explained by Corrigan.