Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

Many holidays are linked to faiths and religions ( see etymology above ).

Many religions state that those who do not go to heaven will go to another place, hell, which is eternal in religions such as Christianity.

Many religions share common beliefs.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Many of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes.

Many religions feature adversarial elements, punishing apostasy, for instance, or demonizing infidels.

Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

Many pagans and pagan traditions attempt to incorporate elements of historical religions, cultures and mythologies into their beliefs and practices, often emphasizing the age of their sources.

Many LGBT Neopagans were initially attracted to Neopagan religions because of this inclusion, in which their relationships are seen on an equal footing.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

Many ancient religions had sacred sites, temples, oracles and sacred groves to which pilgrimages were made.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe.

Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

* Many religions involve an initial Paradise preceding ordinary historical time.

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.

Many disorders involve the heart itself but some are outside of the heart.

Many such games involve one person pointing at each participant in a circle of players while reciting a rhyme.

Many such short processes involve a few changes to traditional methods, including smaller, more homogenized pieces in the compost, controlling carbon to nitrogen ( CN ) ratio at 30 to 1 or less, and monitoring the moisture level more carefully.

Many important processes involve photochemistry.

Many mythologies involve a " world center ", which is often the sacred place of creation ; this center often takes the form of a tree, mountain, or other upright object, which serves as an axis mundi or axle of the world.

Many of these myths involve the loss of a paradise that existed at the beginning of the world.

Many pub or bar games involve competitive drinking for speed and not necessarily for the quantity consumed.

Many involve habitation or industrial elements.

Many problems of the design of experiments involve combinatorial designs, as in this example.

Many processes designed to preserve food will involve a number of food preservation methods.

Many chemical pickling processes also involve heating or boiling so that the food being preserved becomes saturated with the pickling agent.

Many analytical procedures involve the use of a fluorometer, usually with a single exciting wavelength and single detection wavelength.

Many problems involve characterizing the members of various classes of graphs.

Many children like to play outdoor games that involve physical activity such as cops and robbers and hide and go seek.

Many hobbies involve performing by the hobbyist, such as singing, acting, juggling, magic, dancing and other performing arts.

Many challenges in NLP involve natural language understanding -- that is, enabling computers to derive meaning from human or natural language input.

Many of the laboratory techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology that involve DNA polymerase, such as DNA sequencing and the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ), require DNA primers.

Many calculations involve iterative methods that include self-consistent field methods.

Many superhero fiction characters involve themselves ( either intentionally or accidentally ) with science fiction and fact, including advanced technologies, alien worlds, time travel, and interdimensional travel ; but the standards of scientific plausibility are lower than with actual science fiction.

Many well known uses of silver involve its precious metal properties, including currency, decorative items and mirrors.

Many winter activities involve the use of snow in some form ( which sometimes is man-made, using snow cannons ):

Many may have had an overly optimistic sense of what the war would involve, imagining that victory could be won as easily as in the First South African War.

Many origin stories involve tragic elements and / or freak accidents that result in the development of the hero's abilities.