Adherents also emphasise ancestor worship and hold that the spirits of the dead live side by side with the world of the living, each family of spirits having its own female priesthood, sometimes hereditary when is from mother to blood daughter.

Adherents of the heterodox Cārvāka or Lokāyata philosophy of India hold that this world is made of four elements only.

Adherents of the apophatic tradition in Christianity hold that, outside of directly-revealed knowledge through Scripture and Sacred Tradition ( such as the Trinitarian nature of God ), God in His essence is beyond the limits of what human beings ( or even angels ) can understand ; He is transcendent in essence ( ousia ).

Adherents may hold a diverse set of beliefs and claims that are ancillary to the core genealogical theory, but there are central tenets that all British Israelites follow, including Two House Theology, which is at the core of British Israelism.

Adherents of Christian Science believe that Genesis ( creation ) contains two interleaved stories of creation, one spiritual, the other material and hold that the reality of all that God made is spiritual, and not material.

Adherents believe the Christian Bible is inerrant and hold its passages to be historically accurate, including the story of Noah's Ark, and that the Bible's internal chronology, which places the Flood about 6000 years ago, is reliable.

Adherents of this ecclesiology may also affirm the continuation of the charismatic gifts in the modern church, or may hold to the concept of a " Latter Rain " outpouring of Holy Spirit gifts.

Adherents of the white supremacist theology known as Two-Seedline Christian Identity hold that white people are descendants of Adam and are hence the chosen people of God.

Adherents also call upon Buddhist lamas to perform infant purification, seasonal agricultural, and funerary rites, as well as house blessing ceremonies.

Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.

Adherents of libertarian socialism assert that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control certain means of production and subordinate the majority to an owning class or political and economic elite.

Adherents of these religions insist that they would have to continue observing their holy days every seventh day, causing the worship days to drift by one day each year ( two on a leap year ), relative to The World Calendar week.

Adherents of sola fide respond that Jesus was not instituting keeping a higher moral code as means of salvation, and tend to see the exclusion of " works of the law " ( as the means of obtaining justification ) as referring to any works of the Mosaic law, and by implication, any " works of righteousness which we have done " ( Titus 3: 5 ) or any system in which one earns eternal life on the basis of the merit of works.

Adherents teach that Michael sat on his throne with other wives than Eve, and that he was a polygamist.

Adherents of catch and release dispute this charge, pointing out that fish commonly feed on hard and spiky prey items, and as such can be expected to have tough mouths, and also that some fish will re-take a lure they have just been hooked on, a behaviour that is unlikely if hooking were painful.

Adherents consider Sổ to be a prophet, and Hòa Hảo a continuation of a 19th-century Buddhist ministry known as Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương ( Sino-Vietnamese ) " Strange Perfume from Precious Mountains ," referring to the Bảy Núi range on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border ).

Adherents are expected to attend communal services on the 1st and 15th of each lunar month and on other Buddhist holy days.

Adherents to Neo-Confucianism focused on reforming society from the bottom up, not the top down, which can be seen in their efforts to promote small private academies during the Southern Song instead of the large state-controlled academies seen in the Northern Song era.

Adherents of Islam have historically referred to themselves, Jews, and Christians ( among others ) as People of the Book since they all base their religion on books that are considered to have a divine origin.

According to the surveys of Phil Zuckerman on Adherents. com in 1993 ; there was 59 % ( over 700 million ) of the Chinese population was irreligious and 8 % – 14 % was atheist ( from over 100 to 180 million ) as of 2005.

* Holiness Baptists on Adherents. com

Adherents argue that the result of the death penalty – removing the criminal from society, enacting justice on the criminal, and bringing about feelings of revenge for those affected and the greater society – do not necessarily have to be accomplished by taking a life.

Blue Crescent Adherents typically shave their hair bald, tattoo a blue Crescent on their foreheads, give up all personal property beyond what they can carry, and must visit the major locations that Mamoud once lived in the Badlands during their life.

Meanwhile, the gifts brought by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme, small metallic spheres, are revealed to contain robotic spiders that immediately work at disabling functions on Platform One.

Adherents model their practice and lifestyle on those of the Buddha and his early disciples.

Some Salvation Army corps have a Promoted to Glory Board or ledger on which all members ( Soldiers or Adherents ) of that corps, who have died, are listed along with the year of their death.

Adherents model their practice and lifestyle on those of the Buddha and his early disciples.

The subbotnik was organised by Bolshevik party members, and it was stated in the Resolution of the General Council of Communists of the Subraion of the Moscow-Kazan Railway and Their Adherents that " the communists and their supporters again must spur themselves on and extract from their time off still another hour of work, i. e. they must increase their working day by an hour, add it up and on Saturday devote six hours at a stretch to physical labour, thereby producing immediately a real value.

Adherents of these religions object that intercalary days are counted outside the usual seven-day week and disrupt the traditional weekly cycle.

Adherents of British Israelism claim that earlier sources exist, such as ancient or medieval manuscripts, but these are disputed.

Adherents of Conservative and Reform Judaism do not usually follow these laws.

Adherents of naturalism ( naturalists ) assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the universe is a product of these laws.

Adherents of Anglicanism are called Anglicans.

Adherents of this theory argue that even when the two versions diverge, they both have similarities in vocabulary and writing style — suggesting that the two shared a common author.

Adherents of União do Vegetal call this brew hoasca, daime, or santo daime.

Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship.

Adherents of the Christian faith are known as Christians.

Adherents, referred to as Latter-day Saints or, more informally, Mormons, view faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement as the central tenet of their religion.

Adherents would include the Reformed church, most of the Presbyterian church, some low church Anglicans, some Baptist churches, some Wesleyan / Methodist churches and certain Lutheran churches.

Adherents of radical environmentalism and ecological anarchism are involved in direct action campaigns to protect the environment.

Adherents of most historical models identify many of the same features of the Ancien Régime as being among the causes of the Revolution.

Adherents use several names to describe themselves, including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.

Adherents argue that the states can judge the constitutionality of central government laws and decrees.

Adherents of this view include Thomas Hobbes and many modern philosophers.

Adherents of the Goddess Spirituality movement typically envision a history-or " herstory "-of the world that is different from traditional narratives about the past, emphasising the role of women rather than that of men.

Adherents look for elements of this mythological history in " theological, anthropological, archaeological, historical, folkloric and hagiographic writings ", particularly the writings of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas.

Adherents. com estimates that there are roughly one million pagans worldwide ( as of 2000 ), including " Wicca, Magick, Druidism, Asatru, neo-Native American religion and others ".

Adherents are often called " B ' nei Noach " ( Children of Noah ) or " Noahides " and may often network in Jewish synagogues.

The Adherents. com website maintains a list of presidential affiliations, with subpages for each president.

Adherents of preterism are commonly known as preterists.

Adherents of full preterism, however, dispute this assertion by pointing out that Paul's condemnation was written during a time in which the Resurrection was still in the future ( i. e., pre-A. D. 70 ).

* Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents. com ( August 28, 2005 ) Retrieved December 22, 2005