According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

According to Wallis, “ sects lay a claim to possess unique and privileged access to the truth or salvation and “ their committed adherents typically regard all those outside the confines of the collectivity as ' in error '”.

According to Falun Gong websites, the number of Falun Gong adherents tortured to death rose from 245 in 2000 to 419 in 2001.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2010 ), evangelical Protestantism is the most common religion among adherents in Harrison County, although 37. 69 % of the population does not claim any religion.

According to United Church statistics for 2008, there are about 525, 000 members and 2. 8 million adherents.

According to Kalupahana, this classification of eight consciousnesses is based on a misunderstanding of Vasubandhu's Triṃśikaikā-kārikā by later adherents.

According to Kalupahana, this classification of eight consciousnesses is based on a misunderstanding of Vasubandhu's Triṃśikaikā-kārikā by later adherents.

According to Operation World, there are between 7, 000 and 15, 000 members and adherents of the various Protestant, Evangelical and other minority churches in Iran, though these numbers are particularly difficult to verify under the current political circumstances.

According to most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, which was written in a script which the book refers to as " reformed Egyptian.

According to the church official, the patriarch's initiative spurred a national baby boom, because being baptized by the Patriarch is a considerable honor among adherents of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

According to www. adherents. com, the Pentecostal population is growing quickly with even faster rates in the third world countries.

According to adherents, sickness is an attempt by Satan to rob believers of their divine right to total health.

The movement now focuses entirely on " Knowledge ", which is a set of simple instructions on how adherents should live .</ small ></ ref > According to Ron Geaves, Rawat speaks spontaneously, with an emphasis on an individual's subjective experience rather than on a body of theoretical knowledge, and he draws upon real life experiences, including his own, rather than on interpretations of the scriptures.

According to the 2001 UK census, Christianity is the major religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Neo-Paganism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism in terms of number of adherents.

According to 2001 census, the adherents of Buddhism are as follows -

According to Shugden adherents, the Fifth Dalai Lama started off in opposition but then changed his mind.

According to some adherents, it is correct to consider Dorje Shugden as an emanation of Manjushri but not one who shows the aspect of a worldly being.

According to adherents, Dorje Shugden is the incarnation of the five Buddha families and appears in five forms that symbolize the five families, called ' the five lineages of Dorje Shugden '.

According to his adherents, Dorje Shugden is the current incarnation in a lineage of enlightened Masters.

According to him and his adherents, the Revolution in Russia was doomed unless it was to become worldwide.

According to it, adherents of these groups are encouraged to relocate to a five-state region of the Northwestern United States — viz., Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

According to William H. Tucker he " used this opportunity to fill the WACL with European Nazis-ex-officials of the Third Reich and Nazi collaborators from other countries during the war as well as new adherents to the cause — in what one journalist called " one of the greatest fascist blocs in postwar Europe.

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

According to Latter Day Saints, in 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr. received a revelation to restore the practice of temple worship, in a " house of the Lord ".

According to the Book of Mormon, that scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement was originally written in reformed Egyptian characters on plates of " ore " by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as 2600 BC until as late as AD 421.

According to Latter Day Saint theology, all of material creation is filled with immanence, known as the Light of Christ.

According to Latter Day Saint doctrine, to exercise priesthood power or authority, a person must ( 1 ) be called by God, ( 2 ) be ordained or endowed with priesthood power, and ( 3 ) receive the necessary priesthood keys, either through ordination to an office or through delegation or setting apart.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates ( also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible ) are the source from which Joseph Smith, Jr. said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

According to Latter Day Saint history, seer stones were stones used, primarily ( but not exclusively ) by Joseph Smith Jr, to receive revelations from God.

According to the belief of some Latter Day Saints, the term Adam-ondi-Ahman is part of the Adamic language.

According to an article in the Elders ' Journal – a Latter Day Saint newspaper published in Far West – " The Saints here are at perfect peace with all the surrounding inhabitants, and persecution is not so much as once named among them ..."

According to the Book of Mormon and other Latter Day Saint movement sources, the Liahona () is a brass ball that operated as a type of compass with two spindles.

" According to Synan, In the Latter Days has been published in more languages than any of his other books.

According to Leonard Arrington's economic history of the Latter Day Saint movement, Great Basin Kingdom, the completed temple had cost $ 40, 000.

According to Wilbur Fugate in 1879, the plates were carefully forged by himself and two other men ( Bridge Whitten and Robert Wiley ) from Kinderhook who were testing the validity of the claims made by Joseph Smith, Jr. ( founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ), at that time headquartered in Nauvoo.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the Book of Mormon was originally translated by Smith from a record engraved on Golden Plates by the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

According to Latter Day Saint beliefs, many ancient inhabitants of the Americas engraved records on metal plates.

According to Latter Day Saint scripture, the duty of an Elder is to " teach, expound, exhort, baptize, and watch over the church.

According to standard Latter Day Saint theology, the gift of the Holy Ghost is the privilege of receiving inspiration, divine manifestations, direction, and other blessings from the Holy Spirit which are not available to those who have not received the ordinance.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to Day, Rapp had auditioned two hundred vocalists when she got the job.

According to the Kojiki, this emperor is said to have ruled from the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month of 456 ( Heishin ) until his death on the Seventh Day of the Eight Month of 479 ( Kibi ).

According to the biographer Esther Forbes, the Guy Fawkes Day celebration in the pre-revolutionary American colonies was a very popular holiday.

According to oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Memorial or Remembrance ( יום הזכרון, Yom HaZikaron ), and the day of judgment ( יום הדין, Yom HaDin ).

According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U. S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.

According to Walter, the " capper " was being booed on " Brantford Day " at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in February 1975.

According to Christian tradition, Pentecost is always seven weeks after Easter Sunday ; that is to say, 50 days after Easter ( inclusive of Easter Day ).

According to Sam Yagan of OkCupid, " the period between New Year's Day and Valentine's Day is busiest six weeks of the year ".

According to Twelver belief, the Hidden Imam is alive in the world, but in concealment from his enemies, and that he would only emerge shortly before the Day of Judgement.

The observation of a circadian or diurnal process in humans is mentioned in Chinese medical texts dated to around the 13th century, including the Noon and Midnight Manual and the Mnemonic Rhyme to Aid in the Selection of Acu-points According to the Diurnal Cycle, the Day of the Month and the Season of the Year.

According to director Danny Boyle, it was the opening hospital sequence of The Day of the Triffids that inspired Alex Garland to write the screenplay for 28 Days Later.

According to Nielsen Media Research, the month of February 2011 had finished as Disney Channel ’ s most-watched February sweeps period in Total Day ratings in the network's history ever, earning an average of 1. 7 million viewers among Total Viewers, along with 590, 000 viewers with a 2. 1 rating share among Kids 6 – 11 and 459, 000 viewers with a 1. 9 rating share among Tweens 6 – 9 ; 9 – 15 ; among the first two demos, the channel posted its 14th consecutive month of year-to-year gains in both demos.

According to Day ( 1982 ), the concept of Dharma " became so useful for framing religious, moral and social regulations, that interest in it and discussion of its applications to social and moral order eclipsed all discussions of metaphysical and theological ideas.