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 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 sources claim that Harold took part in William's Breton campaign of 1064 and that Harold swore to uphold William's claim to the English throne at the end of the campaign, but no English source reports this trip, and it is unclear if it actually occurred.

Some modern linguists derive it and its Greek root from the Proto-Indo-European root * tel, ' to uphold, support '; others suggest that it is a pre-Indo-European name.

Some have speculated that Cienfuegos was killed on the orders of Fidel Castro ; These rumors have been difficult to uphold, however, as Cienfuegos had appeared exceptionally loyal to Castro throughout his involvement, and had vigorously supported the arrest of Matos only days earlier.

Some communities that uphold competitive exclusion are MacArthur's warblers and Darwin's finches.

Some residents praise Buford Pusser as an honest cop in a crooked town ; others denounce him as a bully willing to break some laws to uphold others.

Some modern Christians are also unclear as to whether this meant that this Apostolic Decree in some way still applies to them or merely that the requirements were imposed to facilitate common participation by Gentiles in the community of Jesus ' followers ( which at that time included Jewish Christians ), so as to remind the Jewish followers of Jesus to uphold those Laws applicable to them ( i. e. the full Mosaic Laws ).

Some of Sundanese villages such as those in Cigugur Kuningan retained their Sunda Wiwitan belief, while some villages such as Kampung Naga in Tasikmalaya, and Sindang Barang Pasir Eurih in Bogor, although admittedly identify themself as Muslim, still uphold pre-Islamic traditions and taboos and venerated the karuhun ( ancestral spirits ).

Some argue that this is probably only an attempt to connect Socrates with the Ionian School ; others ( e. g. Gomperz, Greek Thinkers ) uphold the story.

Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

Some modern scholars use the belief of Jesus ' followers in the resurrection as a point of departure for establishing the continuity of the historical Jesus and the proclamation of the early church.

Some forms of Buddhism hold belief in cycles in which life span of human beings changes according to human nature.

Some people interpret the Bible, especially the New Testament, as teaching belief in, and practice of, faith healing.

Some scholars assert that the gospel teaches that salvation can only be achieved through revealed wisdom, specifically belief in ( literally belief into ) Jesus.

Some of Gregory's theological writings suggest that, like his friend Gregory of Nyssa, he may have supported some form of the doctrine of apocatastasis, the belief that God will bring all of creation into harmony with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Some belief systems contain universalism, the belief that everyone will go to heaven eventually, no matter what they have done or believed on earth.

Some atheists have argued that a belief in a reward after death is poor motivation for moral behavior while alive.

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 more acculturated Jews in the century that followed his death, particularly in Spain, sought to apply Maimonides's Aristotelianism in ways that undercut traditionalist belief and observance, giving rise to an intellectual controversy in Spanish and southern French Jewish circles.

Some notable differences with mainstream Christianity include: A belief that Jesus began his atonement in the garden of Gethsemane and continued it to his crucifixion, rather than the orthodox belief that the crucifixion alone was the physical atonement ; and an afterlife with three degrees of glory, with hell ( often called spirit prison ) being a temporary repository for the wicked between death and the resurrection.

Some branches of Gnosticism believe in a panentheistic view and hold the belief that God exists only as sparks of light in the visible material world.

Some belief systems allow for the possibility that only God and the present moment are the sum of what is " real ".

Some authorities believe that it was to allow Boniface to complete his work in Constantinople, but the more widely held belief is that there were problems with the election.

Some find reliabilism of justification objectionable because it entails externalism, which is the view that one can have knowledge, or have a justified belief, despite not knowing ( having " access " to ) the evidence, or other circumstances, that make the belief justified.

Some modern scholars use the belief of Jesus ' followers in the resurrection as a point of departure for establishing the continuity of the historical Jesus and the proclamation of the early church.

Some Satanists believe in a god in the sense of a Prime Mover but, like Atheistic Satanists, do not worship it, due to the deist belief that a god plays no part in mortal lives.