" The U. N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Asma Jahangir, appealed to the government of Turkmenistan in June 2003 and again in 2005 for an invitation to visit the country, but received no response.

Belief in witchcraft was formerly strong in Jersey, and survived in country areas well into the 20th century.

Belief in conspiracy theories has therefore become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore.

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

They show that this model, when optimized for single-step decision making, produces Belief Anchoring and Polarization of opinions-exactly as described in the global warming controversy context-in spite of identical evidence presented, the pre-existing beliefs ( or evidence presented first ) has an overwhelming effect on the beliefs formed.

Belief in the Grail and interest in its potential whereabouts has never ceased.

* Belief that an event is " due " to happen: For example, " The roulette wheel has landed on red in three consecutive spins.

Philosopher Lynne Rudder Baker has outlined four main contemporary approaches to belief in her controversial book Saving Belief:

Meaning Belief in the Oneness of the Worship of Allah, where it is to believe in total obedience to Allah, that none has the right to be worshiped ( praying, invoking, asking for help ( from the unseen ), swearing, slaughtering sacrifices, giving charity, fasting, pilgrimage and so on ) except Allah.

" Because Gettier's criticism of the Justified True Belief model is systemic, a cottage industry has sprung up around imagining increasingly fantastical counterexamples.

In recent times A. L. De Silva, an Australian convert to Buddhism, has written a book, Beyond Belief, designed to refute the arguments of Christian evangelists.

The heavenly bodies ( the heavenly host-sun, moon, and stars ) were worshiped as deities, a practice which the bible disapproves and of which righteous Job protests his innocence: " If I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon ... and my mouth has kissed my hand, this also would be an iniquity ..." Belief in the divinity of the heavenly bodies explains a passage in Joshua 10: 12, usually translated as Joshua asking the sun and moon to stand still, but in fact Joshua utters an incantation to ensure that the sun-god and moon-god, who supported his enemies, would not provide them with oracles.

Shermer has been a speaker at all three Beyond Belief events from 2006 to 2008.

Belief in koro being caused by the fox ghost among the southern Chinese has been reported.

His current research activities are now concentrated on the application and extension of the Turbo technology in various domains, including his research on Artificial thinking, because the Turbo-decoding has been recognized as a new instance of the very general principle of Belief propagation ; one application of this principle has been invented for the decoding of Low-density parity-check codes ( LDPC codes also known as Gallager codes, in honor of Robert G. Gallager, who developed the LDPC concept in his doctoral dissertation at MIT in 1960 as a theoretical model whose practical implementation was not widely developed until recently ).

Formulating evidentialism in terms of the doxastic attitude of belief its most-defended form comes from Conee and Feldman: Belief, B, toward proposition, p, is epistemically justified for Subject, S, at time, t, if and only if B fits the evidence which S has at t.

Belief propagation is commonly used in artificial intelligence and information theory and has demonstrated empirical success in numerous applications including low-density parity-check codes, turbo codes, free energy approximation, and satisfiability.

" Musically, the band embraced a hard rock sound reminiscent of Def Leppard, as described by CCM Magazine: " Petra has certainly moved more and more toward a big, arena rock sound in the past few years ( the most obvious fruit of their association with the Elefantes ), and Beyond Belief is, if not completely Kansas-inspired, certainly on par with some of the best arena rock music around.

Other works include Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, and an edition of Shakespeare's sonnets ; she has published numerous books and articles on language, literature, and critical theory.

Belief in psychological profiling has often been supported by anecdotal evidence describing BAU profiles as a necessary key to solving a crime.

He has appeared on The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps of Hell, and The Dissent of Man.

He has participated and spoken at the Beyond Belief symposia in 2006 and 2007.

According to Richard Barber in The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, the Wasteland as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is " an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact ".

Although Knight's organization has been featured in a book titled Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief, The Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman notes that in a phone conversation Knight seems " rather sane and self-deprecating ".

He has written and broadcast extensively about his views of religion, spirituality, and the spirituality of science including the essays, " The Perimeter of Ignorance " and " Holy Wars ," both appearing in Natural History magazine and the 2006 Beyond Belief workshop.

Belief through faith is the condition for entrance into the Kingdom of God ; unbelief is the condition for exit from the Kingdom of God – not a lack of good works.

History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present ( 1994 ) 590pp

" Belief in the superiority of Western Judeo-Christian traditions led Conservatives to downplay the aspirations of the non-Capitalist Third World to free themselves from colonial rule and to repudiate the value of foreign aid.

* " Belief in God linked to suffering " Article from the Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion

Belief in the loup-garou present in Canada, the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan and upstate New York, originates from French folklore influenced by Native American stories on the Wendigo.

Belief in the existence of the infinite comes mainly from five considerations:

Belief in each is diffuse, universal, and removed from the origin of the practice.

The successors of Maimonides, from the 13th to the 15th century — Nahmanides, Abba Mari ben Moses, Simon ben Zemah Duran, Joseph Albo, Isaac Arama, and Joseph Jaabez — narrowed his 13 articles to three core beliefs: Belief in God ; in Creation ( or revelation ); and in providence ( or retribution ).

In a survey of treatment providers from three separate institutions ( the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Rational Recovery Systems and the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors ) measuring the treatment provider's responses on the Spiritual Belief Scale ( a scale measuring belief in the four spiritual characteristics AA identified by Ernest Kurtz ); the scores were found to explain 41 % of the variance in the treatment provider's responses on the Addiction Belief Scale ( a scale measuring adherence to the disease model or the free-will model addiction ).

A refugee from Belief seeks a cell tonight.

Belief in the mare goes back to the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century, but the belief is probably even older.

The first letter from Newton to Bentley begins " Sir, When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity ; nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose.

*" Seasons of Belief " ( 1979 ) ( dramatized on Tales from the Darkside )

Such programs from classic to contemporary include American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, The Dick Clark Show, TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes, Dick Clark's LIVE Wednesday, Camp Midnite, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, So You Think You Can Dance, American Dreams ( which includes classic footage from American Bandstand ), Shaq Vs. and Greed.

Belief in the restoration of the offices of apostle and prophet distinguished the Latter Rain Movement from the rest of Pentecostalism.

* The Power of Belief ( Video includes explanation of firewalking ) from ABC News

* " Epiphany ", a song by Bad Religion from their 2002 album The Process of Belief

Spanning the years from 1994 to 2000, this is a collection of the biggest hits and some live tracks from their Atlantic and Epic Records era, therefore it does not contain any songs from Bad Religion's first seven full-length albums, or their then-current album The Process of Belief.