One of the first British-Indian travellers into Monyul, Nain Singh, who visited the area from 1875-6 noted that the Monpas were a conservative people who shunned off contact with the outside world and were making efforts to monopolise trade with Tibet.

Practitioners of BDSM vary hugely in their perception of what activities are integral to BDSM, and some borderline activities ( light bondage, hot wax, blindfolds ) may be practiced by people identifying as " vanilla " ( i. e., not into BDSM ) – so inclusion in the community is usually dependent on self-proclaimed identification with the community.

Cannibalism has been occasionally practiced as a last resort by people suffering from famine, including in modern times.

While there is universal agreement that some Mesoamerican people practiced human sacrifice, there is a lack of scholarly consensus as to whether cannibalism in pre-Columbian America was widespread.

In parts of Melanesia, cannibalism was still practiced in the early 20th century, for a variety of reasons — including retaliation, to insult an enemy people, or to absorb the dead person's qualities.

* Wari ’ people, an Amerindian tribe that practiced cannibalism

The Catholic Church requires those who are attracted to people of the same ( or opposite ) sex to practice chastity, because it teaches that sexuality should only be practiced within marriage, which includes chaste sex as permanent, procreative, heterosexual, and monogamous.

Terracing is an extremely effective means of erosion control, which has been practiced for thousands of years by people all over the world.

An early example of people who practiced selective horse breeding were the Bedouin, who had a reputation for careful breeding practices, keeping extensive pedigrees of their Arabian horses and placing great value upon pure bloodlines.

Anthropologist Laila Williamson notes that " Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by people on every level of cultural complexity, from hunter gatherers to high civilizations, including our own ancestors.

He believes that " Science is being practiced by people who are dependent on being paid for what they are going to find out ," not for what they actually produce.

He wrote apologetic works explaining Christianity in terms that would be palatable to educated people who still practiced the traditional religions of the Empire, while defending Christian beliefs against the criticisms of Hellene philosophers.

The South Korean government in 2009 published an estimate that Taekwondo is practiced by 70 million people in 190 countries.

The new style of sermons and the way people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America.

Traditional Native American ceremonies are still practiced by many tribes and bands, and the older theological belief systems are still held by many of the " traditional " people.

Some of t ' ai chi ch ' uan's training forms are especially known for being practiced at what most people categorize as slow movement.

Therefore, for people unfamiliar with how " ancestor worship " is actually practiced and thought of, the use of the translation worship can be a cause of misunderstanding and is a misnomer in many ways.

Ancestor veneration remains among many Africans, sometimes practiced alongside the later adopted religions of Christianity ( as in Nigeria among the Igbo people ) and Islam ( among the different Mandé peoples and the Bamum ) in much of the continent.

This ritual is still practiced widely among rural Chinese, however young people in larger cities, as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, tend to practice a more Western style of marriage.

Participation in TM programs at any level does not require one to hold or deny any specific religious beliefs ; TM is practiced by people of many diverse religious affiliations, as well as atheists and agnostics.

Lip piercing continues to be practiced by many people, the most well-known of which are certain African tribes, who wear large decorative lip plates or discs, usually in the lower lip.

Whereas various cultures in various places practiced informed consent, the modern concept of informed consent was developed by people who drew influence from Western tradition.

“ There is a real need for residential development ,” he said, “ in which there is a strong sense of community ; a need to feed into the city some of the atmosphere and pace of the small town and village ; a need to create a community which can meet as many as possible of the needs of the people who live there ; which can bring these people into natural contact with one another ; which can produce out of these relationships a spirit and feeling of neighborliness and a rich sense of belonging to a community .” In a city that practiced strict racial segregation, Rouse intended Cross Keys to be open to all who could afford to live there.

* Conventional therapy – a system of diabetes management practiced by most people with diabetes who are treated by medically qualified personnel ; the system consists of one or more insulin injections each day, daily self-monitoring of blood glucose, and a standard ( or prescribed ) program of nutrition and exercise.

A later shamanistic movement was the " Messiah Cult ", introduced by the Wintun people.

On the 2007 release on her own Lean label, the album cover explicitly names Mari Boine with her Sami surname, and shows her ( see illustration ) in full Sami costume as a shamanistic dancer of her own people, while the white background, like the Snowy Owl of the original release, hints at the snows of the north.

The isolated location of the Nganasan people enabled them to maintain shamanistic practices even in the 20th century.

A Sami drum ( Sami: kannus,, also known as " rune drum " or " magic drum ", ) is a membrane-covered oval or circular drum used as shamanistic ceremonial drum by the Sami people.

Gurung Dharma describes the traditional shamanistic religion of the Gurung people of Nepal.

Early Norwegians, like all of the people of Scandinavia, were adherents of Norse paganism ; the Sámi having a shamanistic religion.

Near the Black Temple there are two houses near a sacred oak tree where the local deity once appeared as a winged creature, scaring the local people ( the valley is divided into a number of areas, each under the influence of a particular local deity predating the arrival of Buddhism — see Bön religion ).

Before the spread of Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism, the people were adherents of the religion ' Lung Pe Chhoi ', an animistic religion that had some affinities with the Bön religion of Tibet.

Small pockets of Bön and Tibetan Buddhist believers that amounted up to 3000 people are found in Kharmang valley of Baltistan and in West Kargil.

In this early Bön tradition, every winter a spiritual ceremony was held, in which people offered large quantities of incense to appease the local spirits, deities and ' protectors ' ( Tibetan: chos skyong ; Sanskrit: dharmapalas ).

In some accounts he left Tibet for a time due to the antipathy of followers of the traditional Bön tradition and interference from local spirits. He then thought that a teacher possessed of super-natural powers and mystic charms would be able to move deeply the people of Tibet, steeped in sorcery exorcism and the like.

The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force, mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; ;

In times of calamity, people often turn to religion, and Camus examines this response in the novel.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

The Ainu were a society of hunter-gatherers, who lived mainly by hunting and fishing, and the people followed a religion based on phenomena of nature.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

The resolution recognised the Ainu people as " an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture ", and rescinded the law passed in 1899.

The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people held a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion for his agricultural and tutelary functions.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.

Although people of all creeds enjoyed tolerance and freedom of religion under his rule, he repelled the Fatimids, partly by supporting their enemies in Ifriqiya, and partly by claiming the title Caliph ( ruler of the Islamic world ) for himself.

In the Bahá ' í Faith, religious history is seen to have unfolded through a series of divine messengers, each of whom established a religion that was suited to the needs of the time and the capacity of the people.

Cornish people were still strongly attached to the Catholic religion and again a Cornish army was formed in Bodmin which marched across the border to lay siege to Exeter in Devon.

Esoteric Christianity is a term which refers to an ensemble of spiritual currents which regard Christianity as a mystery religion, and profess the existence and possession of certain esoteric doctrines or practices, hidden from the public but accessible only to a narrow circle of " enlightened ", " initiated ", or highly educated people.

Buddhism became the predominant religion for common people.

They opposed the theory that sovereignty derived from the people, the authority of parliament and freedom of religion.

They regard anti-Judaism as a disagreement of religiously sincere people with the tenets of Judaism, while regarding antisemitism as an emotional bias or hatred not specifically targeting the religion of Judaism.

Roughly stated: are conflicts caused by who people are, whether that be defined in terms of ethnicity, religion or other social affiliation, or do conflicts begin because it is in the economic best interests of individuals and groups to start them?

All of these people of Tuareg castes are of the same race, religion and culture.

These were people of the same race, same religion and same culture as their neighbors yet were considered morally impure by birth, repulsive and shunned, just like the Burakumin caste of Japan and Osu caste of Nigeria.

The honourable and dishonourable people were from the same race, religion and culture.

Cyril new religion wasn ’ t about proving the existence of God or proving the divinity of Christ but rather instilling a faith in people.

Some Christians who view the Jewish people as close to God seek to understand and incorporate elements of Jewish understanding or perspective into their beliefs as a means to respect their " parent " religion of Judaism, or to more fully seek out and return to their Christian roots.

Roosevelt mentioned four fundamental freedoms, which ought to be enjoyed by people " everywhere in the world "; these included the freedom of speech and religion, as well as freedom from want and fear.

In Polish tradition, people combine religion and family closeness at Christmas.