Adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ), commonly called Mormons, believe that founder Joseph Smith, Jr., was a prophet of God, chosen to restore the primitive, apostolic church established by Jesus, now " in its fullness ", rather than to reform the church or priesthood, which had ceased to exist in any substantial or authoritative sense shortly after the end of the apostolic age and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

Adherents of Mormonism believe that Moroni, as an angel, appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823 and directed him to where the plates were hidden.

" Adherents of the monistic schools ( such as Advaita Vedanta ) worship multiple forms of God as emanations from the ultimately formless Brahman, whereas followers of the bhakti traditions may worship a particular form or Avatar of Vishnu, Shiva or Ganesha as the Supreme God ( Ishvara ) in the dualistic sense.

* Critics and followers of Falun Gong: Adherents find fulfillment, but detractors call movement a cult, Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2005

* Critics and followers of Falun Gong, Adherents find fulfillment, but detractors call movement a cult, December 18, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Vanessa Hua

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

Adherents are most likely found among the dominant ethnic Bamar ( or Burmans ), Shan, Rakhine ( Arakanese ), Mon, Karen, and Chinese who are well integrated into Burmese society.

Adherents of Stepanich's Faery Wicca claim that it recovers the traditions of the Tuatha De Danaan, the mythological precursors to the Celtic people ; however, this is disputed by those familiar with ancient Celtic polytheism and mythology.

Adherents call themselves Dievturi ( singular Dievturis ), literally " Dievs keepers ", " people who live in harmony with Dievs ".

Adherents of meme theory see the similarity as more fundamental: each story advocates a certain power structure, which has led people in power to support the story that favors them, often oppressively and often using violence.

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 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 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 to this view maintain that a countertenor will have unusually short vocal cords and consequently a higher speaking voice and lower range and tessitura than their falsettist counterparts, perhaps from D < sub > 3 </ sub > to D < sub > 5 </ sub >.

Its claimed membership ( as quoted from 2010 Year Book ) includes 16, 938 active and 9, 190 retired officers, 1, 122, 326 soldiers, 189, 176 Adherents, 39, 071 Corps Cadets, 378, 009 Junior Soldiers, around 104, 977 other employees and more than 4. 5 million volunteers.

Adherents of different techniques ( for example, candlestick charting, Dow Theory, and Elliott wave theory ) may ignore the other approaches, yet many traders combine elements from more than one technique.

Adherents engage in ethical practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the minimum goal of rejoining God the Father in Heaven and the ultimate goal of freedom from the cycle of birth and death.

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 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 fleeing for the provinces away from Manila, where the Japanese forces were concentrated during the World War II, were used for evangelization.

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.

Adherents to TT maintain it is the smallest practical scale, especially for those who like to build models from scratch.

Adherents of Marxian economics, particularly in academia, distinguish it from Marxism as a political ideology and sociological theory, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the economy is intellectually independent of his advocacy of revolutionary socialism or his support of proletarian revolution.

Adherents believed that signs indicated a " major energy shift " was about to occur, a turning point in Earth's collective karma and dharma, and that this energy was powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation.

* Adherents. com and Adherents. com reporting estimates of the denomination's size from different sources.

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.

Adherents of the traditional position date the Epistle to Titus from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete in Titus 1: 5.

Adherents of the common-law view that judges " found " the law ( in the people's customs or through reason ) had to argue either that earlier courts erred in adopting the principle from Roman law ( i. e., they argued that this wasn't actually the Romans ' rule ), or that the earlier rule was narrower in scope than its wording suggested.

Adherents who go through an inter-faith marriage are often expelled from the religion.

Adherents of gas emission have carried that belief to motorcycles, bicycles and " sports " cars, while all other disk brake users from the same automotive companies have no holes through the faces of their discs, although internal radial air passages are used.

Cassandra used spider-like robots to sabotage Platform Ones computer systems and the android Adherents of the Repeated Meme to direct attention away from herself.

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 anti-organizational commitments prevents one from referring to “ union ” ‘’ per se ’‘, at least before the middle of the century.

Adherents also believed, as did other Christians, that martyrs and confessors also possessed this power.

Adherents of other Abrahamic religions, which arose later than Judaism, were not added.

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

Adherents of the Toyota approach would say that the smooth flowing delivery of value achieves all the other improvements as side-effects.

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

Adherents of particular religions deal with the differing doctrines and practices espoused by other religions in a variety ways.

Adherents are dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as expressed in the physiques and feats of female athletes, martial artists and other powerfully built women in society, art and literature.