The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.

Arminianism, like any major belief system, is frequently misunderstood both by critics and would-be supporters.

A dividing issue is whether a person is " Folkish ", meaning that an emphasis on ancestry and ancestor worship is a part of their belief system.

It holds that language is a complicated belief system whose only connection to reality is an abstraction of experience.

In this belief system, celibacy is given the utmost importance.

Meinhof's system of classification of the Hamitic languages was based on a belief that " speakers of Hamitic became largely coterminous with cattle herding peoples with essentially Caucasian origins, intrinsically different from and superior to the ' Negroes of Africa '.

It is difficult to estimate the number of Discordians because they are not required to hold Discordianism as their only belief system, and because there is an encouragement to form schisms and cabals.

To avoid the charge of circularity, coherentists hold that an individual belief is justified circularly by the way it fits together ( coheres ) with the rest of the belief system of which it is a part.

This is any ideological system or belief that claims to bridge the gap between man's yearning for absolute unity versus what he saw as the inherent irrational nature of the universe.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

This is believed to be a more accurate historical depiction of the Pharisees, who made debate one of the tenets of their system of belief.

Gematria or gimatria ( ) is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like.

Christianity traditionally places a high value on the four canonical gospels, which it considers to be a revelation from God and central to its belief system.

Such a recent origin was a handicap for a belief system bound by the scripture revealed, and the ways of those who lived, twelve centuries earlier.

The unequivocal monotheism of Islam ( often described as the foundation of the religion and its most fundamental article of faith ) arose as a reaction to this belief system.

Consequently, a number of other core tenets of the Pharisees ' belief system ( which became the basis for modern Judaism ), were also dismissed by the Sadducees.

" A " Mixt " took elements from both Aristotle and Ramus ; Philippo-Ramists, who blended Melanchthon with Ramus, were a type of " Mixt "; " Systematics " were " Mixts " who followed Keckermann in a belief in system, as Alsted did.

He thought the religion and issues associated with it were not just a condition of the belief system.

Public awareness of a shared Judeo-Christian belief system has increased since the 1990s due to a great deal of interest in the life of the historical Jesus, stressing his Jewishness ( see also " Jewish Christians ").

Kult's magic system is largely drawn on the same real-world occult belief systems as some modern magick societies.

It reflects the belief that democracy is severely limited when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a ' vanguard ' party, or a State bureaucracy.

Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer.

Although Lollardy can be said to have originated from interest in the writings of John Wycliffe, the Lollards had no central belief system and no official doctrine.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

The Rusk belief in balanced defense, replacing the Dulles theory of massive retaliation, removes a grave danger that has existed.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

As Ásatrú implies a focus on polytheistic belief in the Æsir usage of the term in Scandinavia has declined somewhat.

Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

In Japan, a strong belief in astrology has led to dramatic changes in the fertility rate and the number of abortions in the years of " Fire Horse ".

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

While these plants are not sold anywhere for culinary use, their visual similarity to bay leaves has led to the oft-repeated belief that bay leaves should be removed from food after cooking because they are poisonous.

" In the face of a rocky hill, on the western side of the city, the local belief has placed ' the grotto of Jeremiah.

Recent empirical research has lent support to the theory that psychological projection plays a role in conspiracy belief.

Further, the necessity to serve up a dubiously justified happy ending, although expected by audiences, actually has another effect of heightening the sense of falseness and contrived stories, underpinning the public's loss of belief in virtually anything any mass media says.

Over the last 30 years, however, the miaphysite position has been accepted as a mere restatement of orthodox belief by Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by Pope John Paul II of the Roman Catholic Church.

" Creationists use the term Darwinism, often pejoratively, to imply that the theory has been held as true only by Darwin and a core group of his followers, whom they cast as dogmatic and inflexible in their belief.

This attempt has produced a wide variety of personal beliefs under the broad classification of belief of " deism ".

' Basing his reasoning on his belief that all the enzymatic material needed to produce DMT is found in the pineal gland ( see evidence in mammals ), and moreover in substantially greater concentrations than in any other part of the body, Strassman ( p. 69 ) has speculated that DMT is made in the pineal gland.

Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification.