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 religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

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.

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 of us may even be secretly relieved at having a plausible excuse to delegate ancient civic responsibilities to a new bureaucracy of experts.

Many will add that we may find our enjoyment heightened by our understanding.

Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction.

Many organisations, including the police, not for profit, social or charitable groups with a regular need for group transport may find it practical or cost-effective to own and operate a bus for their own needs.

Many films enjoy cult status because they may be seen as ridiculously awful, for example Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1958 ) or The Room ( 2003 ).

Many consequentialist theories may seem primarily concerned with human beings and their relationships with other human beings.

Many of these booms may be attributable to bird-scarers, automated cannon-like devices used by farmers to scare birds away from the many vineyards, orchards and crops.

Many owners may choose to shorten the barrels down to NFA-lengths, and register them as " short barrel rifles " SBRs.

Many rendering algorithms have been researched, and software used for rendering may employ a number of different techniques to obtain a final image.

Many sources list the domestic dog as Canis familiaris, but others, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Society of Mammalogists, more precisely list it as a subspecies of C. l. familiaris ; the red wolf, eastern Canadian wolf, and Indian wolf may or may not be separate species ; in the past, the dingo has been variously classified as Canis dingo, Canis familiaris dingo and Canis lupus familiaris dingo.

Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course ; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions.

Many mediums who are good clairvoyants may well have little or no clairaudient capability even though both " gifts " belong in the primary channel of clairsensing.

Many marine biologists are now skeptical of this supposed sighting, and it is suggested that the creature may instead have been a sea cucumber.

Many of the routes listed below are in poor condition and may be operating at only a fraction of their original capacity ( if at all ), despite recent attempts to make improvements.

Many non-infectious diseases have a partly or completely genetic basis ( see genetic disorder ) and may thus be transmitted from one generation to another.

Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems and may develop their own logographic cues to compensate for this type of deficit.

" Many eminent figures sought conversations with him, and the Emperor Hadrian was friendly with him and may have listened to him speak at his school in Nicopolis.

Many Muslim scholars argue that even though technology may have advanced, the fundamentals of human life have not and is in the scope of current laws.

Many of them also accept unique listings of caches for their site, but these listings tend to be less popular than the international sites, although occasionally the regional sites may have more caches than the international sites.

Many dwarf galaxies may orbit a single larger galaxy ; the Milky Way has at least a dozen such satellites, with an estimated 300 – 500 yet to be discovered.

Many experts nevertheless recommend to reboot as soon as possible after encountering a Recoverable Alert because the system may be in an unpredictable state that can cause data corruption.

Many bands record simple phrases that may be rhythmically sprawled out across an instrumental lasting only a couple of bars in length.

Many philosophers argue to the contrary, believing that, for example, the laws of thought cannot be revised and may be " held come what may ".