Many of these letters contain questions about church reform and liturgical or doctrinal matters.

Many Jews extend this prohibition to some of the other names listed below, and will add additional sounds to alter the pronunciation of a name when using it outside of a liturgical context, such as replacing the " h " with a " k " in names of God such as " kel " and " elokI'm " or more accurately el-o-heem.

Many of these churches were originally part of one of the above families and so are closely related to them by way of ethos and liturgical practice.

Many melodies and liturgical innovations are also shared among the Reform, Renewal, and Reconstructionist movements.

Many of Dufay's compositions were simple settings of chant, obviously designed for liturgical use, likely as substitutes for the unadorned chant, and can be seen as chant harmonizations.

Many had specific liturgical functions — processional crosses and altarpieces, for example.

Many Christians still celebrate the liturgical seasons of Advent and Christmas according to their traditions.

Many programs also contain courses in church growth, ecclesiology, evangelism, systematic theology, Christian education, liturgical studies, Latin, Hebrew, canon law, and patristics.

Many opportunities for involvement in the liturgy are available at Resurrection as well, including: extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, readers, musicians, greeters, ushers, liturgical environment, altar servers, sacristans, and serving on the Liturgy Committee.

Many of the instrumental forms are almost exclusively for organ, the single most important liturgical instrument in Protestant church music from the Reformation until recent times.

Many amongst this group, attending the diocesan cathedral in London, were unhappy at the ( for a Russian Church ) non-standard practices which prevailed in the diocese, and sought to bring its liturgical practices and ethos into line with the standard practice of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Many other Protestant Christian traditions ( such as the Pentecostal / Charismatics, Assembly of God, and so-called Non-denominational churches ), while often following a fixed " order of worship ", tend to have liturgical practices that vary from that of the broader Christian tradition.

Many of these facial disfigurings were and still are done in some parts of the world as punishment for some crimes, and as individual shame and population terror practices.

Many other " community day schools " that are not affiliated with the Solomon Schechter network take a generally Conservative approach, but unlike the Schechter schools, these schools generally have " no barriers to enrollment based on the faith of the parents or on religious practices in the home.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

Many of the expectations and practices which we associate with spoken and written language are no longer applicable.

Many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach side disciplines which pertain to medicinal practices.

Many applications, practices, and devices associated or involved in metallurgy were established in ancient China, such as the innovation of the blast furnace, cast iron, hydraulic-powered trip hammers, and double acting piston bellows.

Many pagans and pagan traditions attempt to incorporate elements of historical religions, cultures and mythologies into their beliefs and practices, often emphasizing the age of their sources.

Many traditional practices among the natives had been outlawed by German administrators, specifically the acts of tattooing and mengol.

Many spiritual practices refer to this peace as an experience of knowing oneself.

Many UU congregations have study groups that examine the traditions and spiritual practices of Neopaganism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Pantheism, and other faiths.

Many of these same religious beliefs and ancestor veneration practices are still carried on today in the religion of Kemetic Orthodoxy.

Many of the early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, and government documents have since confirmed that Hanford's operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River, which threatened the health of residents and ecosystems.

Many critics of Smart Growth point to deficiences in Smart Growth regulations — it is hard to criticize principles that promote " best practices ," " stewardship ," and " quality of life.

Many environmental lawsuits question the legal rights of property owners, and whether the general public has a right to intervene with detrimental practices occurring on someone else's land.

Many of the practices of Orthodox Christian hermits and desert-dwellers were imitated in Sufism's growth in the center of the former-Christian lands of the Middle East.

Many similar prayer practices exist in other Christian communities, each with its own set of prescribed prayers and its own form of prayer beads, such as the prayer rope in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Many Christians cite the meal as a way to connect with the heritage of their own religion and to see how the practices of the ancient world are still relevant to Christianity today.

Many believed privately owned power companies were charging too much for power, did not employ fair operating practices and were subject to abuse by their owners ( utility holding companies ), at the expense of consumers.

Many family doctor practices have created their own clinics, offering 24-hour service for their patients if needed.

Many other traditional Catholic practices are observed within Anglo-Catholicism, including eucharistic adoration.

Many of Schoenberg's practices, including the formalization of compositional method, and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century.

Many of the country's legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of, and precedents set by, the United Kingdom's Westminster Parliament ; however, Barbados has evolved variations.

Many indigenous communities interweave pre-Columbian ( pre-Hispanic ) and Catholic Christian symbols in their religious practices.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

Many Protestants consider Catholicism to be a cult, due to its beliefs regarding the Pope, Mary, and Purgatory.

Many religions share common beliefs.

Many groups held dualistic beliefs, maintaining that reality was composed into two radically opposing parts: matter, seen as evil, and spirit, seen as good.

Many of those described as " Islamists " oppose the use of the term, and claim that their political beliefs and goals are simply an expression of Islamic religious belief.

Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs.

Many persons and beings have falsely pretended to be gods or demons during history ; in particular, none of the ones claiming to be major figures from Judeo-Christian beliefs has turned out to be the real article, although a number of angels have appeared in recent years, as well as an apparent true rebellion and expulsion of angels from a higher realm known as Paradise, proving that some form of Heaven and Hell do exist in this Universe, seemingly like those in keeping with common real world religious belief.

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of Norse mythology as a basis to their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as being situated on a great world tree called Yggdrasil.

Many Christians with Pentecostal or charismatic beliefs believe in the continuation of the gift of prophecy and the continuation of the role of prophet as taught in Ephesians 4.

According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.

Many objects, beliefs and customs can be traditional.

Many things can be justified: beliefs, actions, emotions, claims, laws, theories and so on.

Many Unitarian Universalists consider themselves humanists, while others hold to Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, natural theist, atheist, agnostic, absurdist, pantheist, pagan, Taoist, and other beliefs.

" Many classical rabbis, especially Maimonides, viewed all such beliefs as a violation of Judaic principles of faith.

Many Democrats were uneasy with Wallace's New Age spiritual beliefs and by the fact that he had written coded letters discussing prominent politicians ( such as Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ) to his controversial Russian spiritual guru, Nicholas Roerich.

Many of the ensuing memoirs, such as Virginia Woolf on her Hyde Park Gate home and Maynard Keynes on his early beliefs, are ironic in ways not always recognized by later commentators.

Many socio-political theories postulate that socialization provides only a partial explanation for human beliefs and behaviors, maintaining that agents are not ' blank slates ' predetermined by their environment.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

Many hippies rejected mainstream organized religion in favor of a more personal spiritual experience, often drawing on indigenous and folk beliefs.

Many historians believe that Vatican rulers had their own goal in hiding his polish ancestry from father's side due to his " dangerous " beliefs.

Many of her letters from that time on mentioned Christian Science, and letters from others to her joked about her efforts to convert peers to her beliefs.