That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.

This draws parallels with some sects of Hinduism who also do not consume pungent tasting foods.

Judaism and major sects of Christianity reject the view that God is entirely immanent ( although some see this as the concept of the Holy Ghost ) and within the world as a physical presence, ( although trinitarian Christians believe in the incarnation of God ).

The Qur ' an was compiled in the mid-seventh century AD ( around 650 CE ), corresponding to the period when docetism was still commonly accepted and taught among some Christian sects.

The earliest Gnostic sects ascribe the work of creation to angels, some of them using the same passage in Genesis.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) celibacy.

The Berbers went on to shape Islam in their own image – some ( like the Banu Ifran ) retained their connection with radical puritan Islamic sects, others ( like the Berghwata ) constructed a new syncretic faith which was simply folk religion thinly disguised as Islam.

This communal monastic lifestyle grew out of the lifestyle of earlier sects of wandering ascetics, some of whom the Buddha had studied under.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) marriage.

* Taoism has some sects with monks and nuns.

Micronations are also distinguished from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups ( such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects, and residential community associations ) by expressing a formal and persistent, even if unrecognized, claim of sovereignty over some physical territory.

It is purely a secular affair and the monks do not participate in it, though in some sects priests and monks do marry.

Some ghulat Shi ' a Muslim sects also regard their founders as in some special sense divine incarnations ( hulul ).

The English sociologist Roy Wallis argues that a sect is characterized by “ epistemological authoritarianism ”: sects possess some authoritative locus for the legitimate attribution of heresy.

All these main types of Shinto and some subtypes have given birth to many and diverse schools and sects since medieval times to the present days.

Practitioners of these sects have allegedly been harassed, imprisoned, and / or tortured, according to some outside human rights advocacy groups.

Mediumship is also widely encountered in some sects.

" Amritdharis " that belong to some Sikh sects ( e. g. Akhand Kirtani Jatha, Damdami Taksal, Namdhari and Rarionwalay, etc.

For example, some are called Orcheni from Uruk, others Borsippeni from Borsippa, and several others by different names, as though divided into different sects which hold to various dogmas about the same subjects.

For example, some are called Orcheni from Uruk, others Borsippeni from Borsippa, and several others by different names, as though divided into different sects which hold to various dogmas about the same subjects.

Certain sects of Taoism, Korean Shamanism, Shinto, some Japanese new religious movements, and other East-Asian religions feature spirit-possession.

For instance, in Japan and in some sects in Korea, monastic law regarding celibacy has been abandoned and Buddhist clergy do not take the ordination of a monk or nun but take alternate ordination which allows them to marry ( though nuns, at least in Japan, tend to remain unmarried ).

In India some sects do not eat onions as they believe them to be an aphrodisiac ; various schools of Buddhism also advise against eating onions and other vegetables of the Allium family.

Religious minorities include followers of various sects of Sunni Islam, Mystic Islam, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity ( including the adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, Armenian Apostolic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Iranian Protestant churches like Jama ' at-e Rabbani ( Assemblies of God ), Armenian Evangelical Church, Armenian Brotherhood Church, Russian Orthodox Church, and the Presbyterian Church ) and some from the Bahá ' í Faith.

The commitment to relate religion to daily life through the law has led some ( notably, Saint Paul and Martin Luther ) to infer that the Pharisees were more legalistic than other sects in the Second Temple Era.

Members of some generally non-theistic religions such as Buddhism, tend to believe in an afterlife, but without reference to a God.

It is an important tenet of some Indian religions ( Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism ).

According to some scholars, the philosophical outlook of earliest Buddhism was primarily negative, in the sense that it focused on what doctrines to reject more than on what doctrines to accept.

For some schools of Hinduism and Buddhism the received textual tradition is an epistemological category equal to perception and inference ( although this is not necessarily true for some other schools ).

Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy had some parallels in Buddhism.

Heidegger's ideas on being and nothingness have been held by some to be similar to Buddhism today.

Historically, most states where the official religion is Buddhism have imposed capital punishment for some offenses.

Buddhist cuisine is an East Asian cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism.

Philosophical vacuity is a common theme among Asian wisdom traditions including Taoism ( especially Wu wei " effortless action "), Buddhism, and some aspects of Confucianism.

Although the imperial court was not moved to the Asuka region of Japan until 592, Emperor Kimmei's rule is considered by some to be the beginning of the Asuka period of Yamato Japan, particularly by those who associate the Asuka period primarily with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan from Korea.

This period produced some of India's finest art, considered the epitome of classical development, and the development of the main spiritual and philosophical systems which continued to be in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

It is the opinion of some food scholars that the Japanese diet always relied mainly on " grains with vegetables or seaweeds as main, with fowl meat secondary, and mammal meat in slight amounts ," even before the advent of Buddhism which placed an even stronger taboo.

While Buddhism does give a similar and to some extent a matching account for Gautama Buddha, Hinduism maintains a totally different theory where " divine grace " is needed for emancipation.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism led some researchers to compare it with early Christianity: “ Tamura finds Nichiren ’ s Buddhism to be broadly comparable with Christianity ‘ as a religion of prophecy, in its spirit of martyrdom, in its apostolic consciousness, and additionally, in its emphasis upon history ”.

* The Ichi-Lineage today comprises most of the traditional schools within Nichiren Buddhism, including some Nikkō temples, of which the Nichiren Shū is the biggest representative.

* ReligionFacts. com on Nichiren Buddhism Contains some inaccuracies ; e. g., the photo of an altar is not of a Nichiren Shoshu one.

Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).

There are elements of pantheism in some forms of Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, Judaism, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, and Theosophy as well as in several tendencies in the major theistic religions.

Other fragments in the Buddhist scripture can be found that seem to treat polygamy unfavorably, leading some authors to conclude that Buddhism generally does not approve of it or alternatively that it is a tolerated, but subordinate marital model.

Symbols representing some world religions, from left to right: row 1: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduismrow 2: Islam, Buddhism, Shintorow 3: Sikhism, Bahá ' í Faith, Jainism