In modern usage, sadhaka is often applied as a generic term for any religious practitioner.

By excluding scientific explanation in their understanding of why and how things occur, he asserts modern religious practitioners are rudimentary.

The provision that attempts to accommodate those of the Jewish faith was insufficient to catch all sincere religious practitioners and so violated section 2(a).

Some homosexuals, religious practitioners, and others were sent to labor camps where they were subject to political "re-education".

The trilogy of practice, faith and study is one that any religious practitioner will recognise.

In order to pacify Christians, "some tribal religious practitioners modified elements of their traditional practices".

Shamanistic: where a part-time religious practitioner uses religion to heal and to divine, usually on the behalf of a client.

No longer is it necessary, except for a small percentage of religious practitioners, to hold God responsible for illness.

Parents - and I'm sorry to say, some medical or religious practitioners who treat their charges as children - do terrible things to their kids.

This does not mean that all religious practitioners actually think and act like homo religiosus.