Some contemporary teen idols include Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Demi Lovato, The Jonas Brothers, and Selena Gomez.

Today's idols include film and television stars, pop singers, and supermodels.

Former " gravure idols " ( bikini models ) who made a breakthrough as voice actresses include Marina Ōno, Ryōka Yuzuki and Chiemi Chiba.

The most striking features of the Mekkekattu temple include a large collection of coloured wooden idols, some of which measure up to 10 feet in height.

Although in a bigger scope K-pop may include other genres of " popular music " within South Korea, outside of the country the term is more commonly used for songs sung by Korean teen idols, which covers mostly dance, electronic, rap, hip-hop, and R & B genres.

Other K-Pop concerts in 2011 in the United States include the 2011 KBS Concert at the New York Korea Festival, the 2011 K-Pop Masters Concert in Las Vegas as well as the Korean Music Wave in Google, which was held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California featuring some well-known K-Pop idols.

Her musical influences include the Afropop, Caribbean zouk, Congolese rumba, jazz, gospel, and Latin styles ; as well as her childhood idols Bella Bellow, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Miriam Makeba and Carlos Santana.

Modern traditions have come to include the display of decorated pandals and artistically depicted idols ( murti ) of Durga, exchange of Vijaya greetings and publication of Puja Annuals.

But this structure doesn't include any images or idols of god-heads of Hinduism.

Her idols include Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Anne Hathaway, Cynthia Nixon and Toni Colette.

hitectural features include its open galleries ( such as the Mirror Gallery Addala Mantapa and a corridor with a number of Shiva idols ) and a Dharma Gundam, a holy tank where pilgrims bathe then proceed for darshan and whose water is believed to have curative properties.

These include idols that may belong to the Gupta period, while most belonged to 7 – 8th century.

The breakaway group felt that his work was no longer relevant, while having appreciated it " in its own time ," and asserted their belief " that the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they claim to represent freedom ," in this case, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

Many American teen idols achieve " cross-over " success internationally, however this list is not limited to American artists alone with some people like German popstar Bill Kaulitz of the pop-rock band Tokio Hotel.

Among the other fans he is the idol of lots of idols, In one of the interviews actress Preity Zinta has been quoted as saying that Dharmendra is her favourite actor.

Dhoni is a fan of Adam Gilchrist, and his childhood idols were cricket teammate Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and singer Lata Mangeshkar. Shreya Ghoshal is his current favourite singer.

She painted her male idols — Elvis, French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, British writer Derek Marlowe — as sex symbols, just as she did actresses Monica Vitti and Marilyn Monroe.

Harold A. Lockwood ( April 12, 1887 – October 19, 1918 ) was an American silent film actor and one of the most popular matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.

The stars of 90210, most notably actress Shannen Doherty and actor Luke Perry, became teen idols.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.

His father went away to attend to some other business, and Abu Bakr was left alone with the idols.

Thereafter, he never went to the Kaaba to pray to the idols.

Capp also lampooned popular recording idols of the day, such as Elvis Presley (" Hawg McCall ," 1957 ), Liberace (" Loverboynik ," 1956 ), the Beatles (" the Beasties ," 1964 )— and in 1944, Frank Sinatra.

The visions describe the national crisis that occurred under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid king who attempted to introduce Hellenistic religious practices, including the worship of idols, into the temple and the Jewish religion more generally, sparking outrage from Biblical authors.

According to the book, for a quarter century prior to the destruction, Jeremiah repeatedly issued prophecies predicting God's forthcoming judgment ; advocating the Israelites to put down their idols and repent in hopes of turning away God's judgment and fulfilling their destiny as His chosen people.

In Isaiah 44: 09 – 20 this is developed into a satire on the making and worship of idols, mocking the foolishness of the carpenter who worships the idol that he himself has carved.

Lara played in Trinidad and Tobago junior soccer and table tennis sides but Lara believed that cricket was his path to success, saying that he wanted to emulate his idols Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks.

Moses recalls the stations at which the Israelites halted during their forty years ' wanderings and instructs the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites and destroy their idols.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Discussing idolatry, Clement contends that the objects of primitive religion were unshaped wood and stone, and idols thus arose when such natural items were carved.

Cyril was constantly busy with work that ranged from offering Mass to meeting with the people of his flock and not to mention making it a top priority to make sure people were not starving or being seduced by the call of false idols and religious skeptics.

Jones is considered to be one of the greatest teen idols of all time.

In 2009, Jones was rated second in a list of 10 best teen idols compiled by Fox News.

This reflects the ethnic and religious makeup of that congregation in Thessalonica, and is supported by Paul's brief remark in 1: 9 that they " turned to God from idols.

" It was gentiles, not Jews, who stopped worshiping idols.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

The seventies also saw the start of the " idol eiga ", films starring young " idols ", who would bring in audiences due to their fame and popularity.

According to Rao, " St. Francis Xavier made it a point not only to convert the people but also destroy the idols and ancient places of worship.

The children run at the idols, upset them, dash them down, break them to pieces, spit on them, trample on them, kick them about, and in short heap on them every possible outrage.

" When I have finished baptizing the people, I order them to destroy the huts in which they keep their idols ; and I have them break the statues of their idols into tiny pieces, since they are now Christians.

I could never come to an end describing to you the great consolation which fills my soul when I see idols being destroyed by the hands of those who had been idolaters.