Some more focused reform projects, affecting only a particular feature of the language, have gained a few adherents.

Some adherents to the free software movement do not believe that proprietary software is strictly immoral.

Some Buddhists believe that when one of their adherents departs from this world, they are placed by Guanyin in the heart of a lotus, and then sent to the western pure land of Sukhāvatī.

Some Muslims, however, disagree, and hold that adherents of these faiths cannot be dhimmi.

Some adherents to these beliefs considered any proliferation of mixed-descent children ( labelled ' half-castes ', ' crossbreeds ', ' quadroons ' and ' octoroons ') to be a threat to the nature and stability of the prevailing civilisation, or to a perceived racial or civilisational " heritage ".

Some very extreme tendencies of a minority of adherents to Ultramontanism however, especially those attributing to the Roman Pontiff, even in his private opinions, of absolute infallibility even in matters beyond faith and morals, and impeccability, survived and were eagerly used by opponents of the Catholic Church and papacy before the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ) for use in their propaganda.

Some religions regard Chastity as a virtue expected of faithful adherents.

Some Muslims often regard adherents of the Bahá ' í faith as apostates from Islam, and there have been cases in some Muslim countries where Baha ' is have been harassed and persecuted.

Some adherents of Messianic Judaism are ethnically Jewish, and many of them argue that the movement is a sect of Judaism.

Some adherents of near-east religions acted as mediums, channeling messages from the dead or from a familiar spirit.

Some adherents view them as part of the Merkabah.

# Some exoteric schools in the late Nara and early Heian Japan held ( or were portrayed by Shingon adherents as holding ) that attaining Buddhahood is possible but requires a huge amount of time ( three incalculable aeons ) of practice to achieve, whereas esoteric Buddhism teaches that Buddhahood can be attained in this lifetime by anyone.

** Some religions encourage their adherents to take part in other forms of activism

Some adherents of Messianic Judaism also regard themselves as part of Joseph on the basis that, regardless of any genetic connection which may or may not exist, they observe the Torah and interpret parts of the Tanakh in certain ways.

Some religions including Judaism and Islam usually discourage the performing of autopsies on their adherents.

Some of the " old Craft " adherents have gone back to the older " Faery " spelling of the tradition in order to distinguish themselves from the more public faction, while others have not.

Some supporters of the restoration of the Jews interpret the prophetic texts as describing inevitable future events, and these events primarily involve Israel ( taken to mean the descendants of the Biblical patriarch Jacob ) or Judah ( taken to mean the remaining faithful adherents of Judaism ).

Some adherents directly recite Biblical examples in prayer intended to command a demon to depart an afflicted person, and do not believe an ordained clergy is required to perform the deliverance.

Some adherents of Stregheria celebrate the eight holidays of the neopagan Wheel of the Year, called " Treguendas ", while others celebrate the Roman Catholic or the ancient Roman holidays.

Some adherents were left in debt or bankruptcy.

Some secular critics maintain that all religions indoctrinate their adherents, as children, and the accusation is made in the case of religious extremism.

Some adherents of RS / SOM also use supplemental meditation techniques, including " Visioning "

Some low church Anglicans of the Reformed party consider themselves the only faithful adherents of historic Anglicanism and emphasize the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England as an official doctrinal statement of the Anglican tradition.

Some of the group's members and adherents:

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

Some modern day monotheistic religions include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and some forms of Hinduism.

Some are monotheistic.

Some scholars suggest that the major impetus for the formation of Karaism was a reaction to the rapid rise of Shi ' a Islam, which recognized Judaism as a fellow monotheistic faith, but claimed that it detracted from monotheism by deferring to Rabbinic authority.

Some scholars have also suggested that the view of Jesus in The Book of Mormon is also consistent, or perhaps most consistent, with monotheistic Modalism.

Some have suggested that he was himself a Jew, or perhaps a pagan native who had come under the influence of the wealthy Jewish community, and learned his monotheistic beliefs there.

Some Roman writers used Caelus or Caelum as a way to express the monotheistic god of Judaism.

Some number of young monotheistic men lived in a time where they were persecuted.

Some critics of religion such as Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer argue that all monotheistic religions are inherently violent.

Some theories have been put forward that the anthropocentric belief in animism among early humans was the basis for the later evolution of religions.

Some faiths and religions are even both pantheistic and animistic.

Some religions ascribe a special status to the female breast, either in formal teachings or through symbolism.

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

Some 16th-century anti-Trinitarian divines sought to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism ; on the basis of very similar arguments to those presented in the Gospel of Barnabas, arguing that if salvation remains unresolved until the end times, then any one of the three religions could be a valid path to heaven for their own believers.

Some religions uphold the belief that other forms of afterlife exist in addition to heaven and hell, such as purgatory, though many hells, such as Naraka, serve as purgatories themselves.

Some forms of Christianity, and other religions believe hell to be the termination of the soul.

Some Kashmiri rulers, such as Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin who was popularly known as Budshah ( بڈشاہ ) ( the King ) ( r. 1423-1474 ), were tolerant of all religions in a manner comparable to Akbar.

Some other religions also include monastic elements, most notably Buddhism, but also Hinduism and Jainism, though the expressions differ considerably.

Some religions and sects enthusiastically embrace occultism as an integral esoteric aspect of mystical religious experience.

Some modern Celtic pagan religions accept the practice of polygamy to varying degrees, though how widespread the practice is within these religions is unknown.

Some religions place an emphasis on belief, while others emphasize practice.

Some religions focus on the subjective experience of the religious individual, while others consider the activities of the religious community to be most important.

Some religions claim to be universal, believing their laws and cosmology to be binding for everyone, while others are intended to be practiced only by a closely defined or localized group.

Some scholars classify religions as either universal religions that seek worldwide acceptance and actively look for new converts, or ethnic religions that are identified with a particular ethnic group and do not seek converts.

Some academics studying the subject have divided religions into three broad categories:

Some religions do not include all these features.

Some religions have religious texts which they view as divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired.

Some other religions include their own descriptions of Jesus which may not include his resurrection.

Some, such as Bruce Jakosky have also argued that the official disclosure of extraterrestrial life may have far reaching and as yet undetermined implications for society, particularly for the world's religions.

Some elements of Taoism may be traced to prehistoric folk religions in China that later coalesced into a Taoist tradition.