Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

Many holidays are linked to faiths and religions ( see etymology above ).

Many religions state that those who do not go to heaven will go to another place, hell, which is eternal in religions such as Christianity.

Many religions share common beliefs.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Many of the features common to the most widely practiced religions provide built-in advantages in an evolutionary context, she writes.

Many religions feature adversarial elements, punishing apostasy, for instance, or demonizing infidels.

Many other cultures and religions still celebrate the beginning of the New Year in March.

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 LGBT Neopagans were initially attracted to Neopagan religions because of this inclusion, in which their relationships are seen on an equal footing.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

Many ancient religions had sacred sites, temples, oracles and sacred groves to which pilgrimages were made.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe.

Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures.

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 religions involve an initial Paradise preceding ordinary historical time.

* Many religions involve the story of a god who undergoes death and resurrection ( see life-death-rebirth deity ).

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.

Many road bikes along with mountain bikes include clipless pedals to which special shoes attach, via a cleat, permitting the rider to pull on the pedals as well as push.

Many lice attach their eggs to their host's hair with specialized saliva ; the saliva / hair bond is very difficult to sever without specialized products.

Many of these later designs that attach his name bear little relationship to his original concepts.

Many rucksack models come with one ice axe loop ( on the outside of the rucksack at its foot and generally in the middle ), together with a device ( a strap or a bungee cord ) to attach it to the main body of the sack.

Many practices, beliefs, and traditions ( including philosophical and religious ) utilize the term, and a range of subjective interpretations also attach to it.

Many holders of controversial and highly-charged opinions use stipulative definitions in order to attach the emotional or other connotations of a word to the meaning they would like to give it ; for example, defining " murder " as " the killing of any living thing for any reason.

Many water quality groups, such as the North Carolina State University Water Quality Group, believe that having too much natural organic material will cause deoxygenation and essentially remove oxygen from the water .< ref > Water Sheds: Organic Matter, North Carolina State University, 1 May 2007 < http :// www. water. ncsu. edu / watershedss / info / norganics. html >.</ ref > Although organic material, which consists of many hydrocarbon and cyclic carbon chains, is susceptible to attack by oxygen, it would be sterically unfavorable to attach oxygens to every single carbon.

Many other methods can be used to attach hoses or tubing, such as compression fittings ( where a nylon or soft metal ferrule is compressed onto the hose by the tightening of the fitting ), push-fit fittings ( where the hose is inserted inside of a compression sleeve, designed such that force against the hose causes the sleeve to tighten ), swage fittings / crimp fittings ( where a stiff collar is compressed onto the hose ), clamp fittings ( where two blocks are tightened onto the sides of the hose, often found on garden hoses ), and a multitude of others.

Many traditional beliefs attach to various name days, especially involving the weather and the appropriate times to perform seasonal agricultural tasks such as planting some particular crop.

Many couples choose rings that reflect their spiritual and cultural traditions, while others choose plainer, more conventional wedding rings.

Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.

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 those built during the baroque period reflect the personal and spiritual aspirations of powerful local families:

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

Many religions still espouse pilgrimage as a spiritual activity.

Many Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians partake in and organise spiritual retreats each year.

Many of these men left their families, possessions, and homes to live a mendicant life, and in the eyes of their followers demonstrated great spiritual attainment or enlightenment.

" Many were shape changing, transformed from or into human beings or natural species, or into natural features such as rocks but all left something of their spiritual essence at the places noted in their stories.

Many of these concepts were codified into laws, and many of the concepts often were discussed by ancient Egyptian philosophers and officials who referred to the spiritual text known as the Book of the Dead.

Many green anarchists consider traditional forms of social organization such as the village, band, or tribe to be preferred units of human life, not for some Noble Savage concept of spiritual superiority, but because these social organizations appear to work better than civilization.

Many of the natural features of the landscape hold spiritual significance for the traditional owners.

Many of the abstract expressionists exhibited pretensions for something approximating a spiritual experience, or at least an experience that exceeded the boundaries of the purely aesthetic.

Many sanctuaries and gatherings are open to all, while some still focus on the particular spiritual experience of man-loving men co-creating temporary autonomous zones.

Many scholars are inclined to believe that these ideas may have originated within the Sramanic traditions whose spiritual ideas greatly influenced the conceptual framework of mainstream Indian religious thought.

Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society — one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity.

Many patent medicines, cosmetics, and household cleaning supplies have been also aimed at hoodoo practitioners and have found dual usage as conventional and spiritual remedies ; examples include Four Thieves Vinegar, Florida Water, and Red Devil Lye.

Many cultures around the world have either used or continue to use psilocybin mushrooms for spiritual purposes as well as medicinal mushrooms in folk medicine.

Many Chinese belief systems have concepts of a sacred and sometimes spiritual natural world yet do not always invoke a concept of personal god.