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.

Some aspects of brain structure are common to almost the entire range of animals species ; others distinguish " advanced " brains from more primitive ones, or distinguish vertebrates from invertebrates.

This may be the case for words such as church in rhotic dialects of English, although phoneticians differ in whether they consider this to be a syllabic consonant,, or a rhotic vowel,: Some distinguish an approximant that corresponds to a vowel, for rural as or ; others see these as a single phoneme,.

* Some use the term " Catholic " to distinguish their own position from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Reformed-Protestantism.

Some scholars consciously adopt " Daoism " in order to distinguish the Chinese philosophy and religion from what " Taoism " embodied in the 19th-and 20th-century Western imaginations.

Some years after the 1900-1901 publication of his main work, the Logische Untersuchungen ( Logical Investigations ), Husserl made some key conceptual elaborations which led him to assert that in order to study the structure of consciousness, one would have to distinguish between the act of consciousness and the phenomena at which it is directed ( the objects as intended ).

Some classifications now reserve the term woodland for an area with more open space between trees and distinguish among woodlands, open forests, and closed forests based on crown cover.

* Some authorities distinguish between latency and transport delay by using the term ' latency ' in the sense of the extra time delay of a system over and above the reaction time of the vehicle being simulated, but this requires a detailed knowledge of the vehicle dynamics and can be controversial.

Some distinguish Marx's economic theories from his political philosophy, arguing that Marx's approach to understanding the economy is independent of his advocacy of revolutionary socialism or his belief in the inevitability of proletarian revolution.

Some programming styles discourage mutual recursion, claiming that it can be confusing to distinguish the conditions which will return an answer from the conditions that would allow the code to run forever without producing an answer.

Some nations distinguish between mechanized and armored infantry, designating troops carried by APCs as mechanized and those in IFVs as armored.

Some people distinguish between a dead metaphor and a cliché.

Some science journalists distinguish gene selection from natural selection by informally referencing selection of mutations as " pre-selection.

Some of the structural material can be used to generate energy internally, and in either case it is measured in Joules or kilocalories ( often called " Calories " and written with a capital C to distinguish them from little ' c ' calories ).

Some DoS attacks are too complex for many firewalls, e. g. if there is an attack on port 80 ( web service ), packet filter firewalls cannot prevent that attack because they cannot distinguish good traffic from DoS attack traffic.

Some of these common features distinguish the wide moving jam and synchronized flow phases of congested traffic in Kerner ’ s three-phase traffic theory.

Some languages distinguish verbs based on their transitivity, which suggests this is a salient linguistic feature.

Some moraine types are only known from ancient glaciers, like the two former ones, while medial moraines of valley glaciers are poorly preserved and difficult to distinguish after the retreat or melting of the glacier.

Some authors distinguish notationally, using ≅ for a natural isomorphism and ≈ for an unnatural isomorphism, reserving

Some authors distinguish static strategic imbalances ( e. g. having more valuable pieces or better pawn structure ), which tend to persist for many moves, from dynamic imbalances ( such as one player having an advantage in piece development ), which are temporary.

Some features that distinguish creole languages from noncreoles have been proposed ( by Bickerton, for example ).

Some syntacticians distinguish between auxiliary verbs and light verbs.

Some researchers distinguish between conscious recollection, which depends on the hippocampus, and familiarity, which depends on portions of the medial temporal cortex.

Some translations refer to these same units as the “ First Front Red Army ", “ Second Front Red Army ” and “ Fourth Front Red Army " to distinguish them from the earlier organizational divisions.