Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

It has been revived somewhat in conjunction with the environmental movement, and has been drawing an increasing number of adherents.

Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small.

The number of adherents to the various smaller groups of Christadelphians varies from approximately 1, 850 members ( the Unamended Christadelphians as of 2006 ) to groups made up of little more than one or two immediate families.

Methodism ( from-methodos, " pursuit of knowledge ") is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide.

This estimate accounted for multiple membership overlaps as well as the number of adherents represented by each attendee of a pagan gathering.

It is an anti-Zionist, Haredi organization, closely aligned with the Satmar Hasidic group, which has about 100, 000 adherents ( an unknown number of which are rabbis ), and like-minded Haredi groups.

The number of adherents of neopaganism is insignificant in comparison, amounting to 0. 02 % of world population at the most, or some 0. 4 % of the " ethnoreligious " population.

Sufism gained adherents among a number of Muslims as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad Caliphate ( 661-750 CE ).

Today, it is one of five religions recognized in the PRC, and although it does not travel readily from its Asian roots, claims adherents in a number of societies.

The number of its adherents is estimated to be between ten and twenty million.

Among the adherents were a significant number of Italians.

Including all the autocephalous churches under its supervision, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide — about half of the 300 million estimated adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

By 1999, some estimates placed the number of Falun Gong adherents in the tens of millions.

The number of Falun Gong adherents still practicing in China today is difficult to confirm, though some sources estimate that millions may continue to practice privately.

In the letter, Jiang expressed concerns over the size and popularity of Falun Gong, and in particular about the large number of senior Communist Party members found among Falun Gong adherents.

Due to the difficulty in corroborating reports of torture deaths in China, estimates on the number of Falun Gong adherents killed under persecution vary widely.

According to Falun Gong websites, the number of Falun Gong adherents tortured to death rose from 245 in 2000 to 419 in 2001.

A list of alleged adherents was found by the police in Gelli's house in Arezzo in March 1981, containing 962 names, among which were important state officials, some important politicians and a number of military officers, including the heads of the three Italian secret services.

His works were collected and published by a number of his adherents — F Hoffman, J Hamberger, E v. Schaden, Lutterbeck, von Osten-Sacken and Schluter — Baader's sämmtliche Werke ( 16 vols., 1851 – 1860 ).

Wesleyan Methodism in Tintagel began in 1807 at Trenale and over the next sixty years gained many adherents though divided among a number of sects ( Wesleyan Methodist, Methodist Association, Bible Christian ): chapels were built at Trevena in 1838 and Bossiney in 1860.

The Catholic Church has the highest number of adherents in Franklin County ( at 16, 280 ), followed by the United Methodist Church with 2, 674 members reported and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis, reporting 1, 720 adherents.

Christianity has seen the three stages phased out and replaced with biblical teachings in a number of areas in Kipsigis areas ( although the traditions of the " menjo " remains unchanged ).

Around this time, Musashi developed a number of disciples for his Enmei-ryū although he had developed the school considerably earlier ; at the age of 22, Musashi had already written a scroll of Enmei-ryū teachings called " Writings on the Sword Technique of the Enmei-ryū " ( Enmei-ryū kenpo sho ).

The fourth figure was George Gurdjieff ( c. 1872 – 1949 ), who founded the philosophy of the Fourth Way, through which he conveyed a number of spiritual teachings to his disciples.

The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders, the teachings and practices taught by them, and to a large body of current and historical literature and spiritual philosophy related to this subject.

Eventually, Montanist teachings came to be regarded as heresy by the orthodox Church for a number of reasons.

Esoteric traditions in China are similar in teachings to the Japanese Shingon school, though the number of practitioners was greatly reduced, due in part of the persecution of Buddhists under Emperor Wuzong of Tang, nearly wiping out most of the Chinese Esoteric Buddhist lineage.

This is attributable to a number of factors, including Mahayana-specific teachings regarding vegetarianism, East Asian cultural tendencies that predate the introduction of Buddhism ( some of which may have their roots in Confucianism ) and the different manner in which monks support themselves in East Asia.

A number of manuscripts with additional teachings are in the National Library of the Hebrew University.

The four official Foundations continue with the maintenance of archives, dissemination of the teachings in an increasing number of languages, new conversions to digital and other media, development of websites, sponsoring of television programs, and with organizing meetings and dialogues of interested persons around the world.

The teachings of the religion envisage Houses of Worship being surrounded by a number of dependencies dedicated to social, humanitarian, educational, and scientific pursuits, although none has yet been built to such an extent.

Among his contributions are the translation of a large number of Tibetan texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings.

Sufism embodies a number of cultures, philosophies, central teachings and bodies of esoteric knowledge.

Several Xiongnu such as Yufuluo are known to have at least lent their support to the sect and a number of scholars have theorized that Zhang Jue may have derived some of his teachings from shamanism as he appeared as a mystical healer with a direct link to the heavens.

Swami Vivekananda, the 19th Century Hindu Philosopher and founder of Vedanta Society, drew a number of parallels between the teachings of the Imitation and the Bhagavad Gita.

Although he remained true to the teachings of these two great masters, Mabuni sought instruction from a number of other teachers, including Seishō Arakaki, Tawada Shimboku, Sueyoshi Jino and Wu Xianhui ( a Chinese master known as Go-Kenki ).

A number of ben David's teachings differ from those of Rabbinic Jews and of the majority of modern Karaites.

In his role as Sufi shaykh, which began in 1453, Jami expounded a number of teachings regarding following the Sufi path.

Using the teachings of Neolin to inspire his listeners, Pontiac convinced a number of Ottawas, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, and Hurons to join him in an attempt to seize Fort Detroit.

The Yellow Emperor was credited with an enormous number of cultural legacies and esoteric teachings.

Half the devout Catholics defied Church teachings and used contraception to postpone births -- the number of births nationwide fell from 250, 000 in 1930 to about 228, 000 and did not recover until 1930.

Living Stream Ministry affirms that Lee's teachings are part of the Christian tradition, which a growing number in the evangelical community have confirmed over the past decade.

There are a number of different Sufi orders that follow the teachings of particular spiritual masters, but the bond that unites all Sufis is the concept of ego annihilation ( removal of the subject / object dichotomy between humankind and the divine ) through various spiritual exercises and a persistent, ever-increasing longing for union with the divine.

A number of scholars have proposed that the Mahāyāna Prajñāpāramitā teachings were first developed by the Caitika subsect of the Mahāsāṃghikas.