These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

These rituals and beliefs eventually evolved over time into the vast array of “ developed ” religions.

These hymns are full of rich, poetic imagery drawn from biblical sources, folk tradition, and other religions and philosophies.

These religions are also classified as Eastern religions.

These religions taught the existence of many gods and goddesses who controlled various aspects of daily life.

These early religions may have avoided the question of theodicy by endowing their deities with the same flaws and jealousies that plagued humanity.

These religions each give different answers as to the details, and those details are very important to the adherents of these religions ; but together they share a tradition of asking the same or similar questions, and proposing the same or similar answers, about what, precisely, God is or is supposed to be.

These myths of the earliest stage of humankind have been referred to by various cultures, societies, and religions:

These may reflect changing fashions, changing beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas and new technology which make new styles possible.

These religions are mainly based in the west, the United States and Europe, the surviving remnants of the actual Mesopotamians have shown no interest in these practices, preferring to follow various ancient Eastern Rite Christian denominations.

These religions draw on concepts from Shinto, Buddhism, and folk superstition.

These are, however, synthetic categories and do not necessarily encompass all religions .< ref >

These include not only the ' founders ' of the world's great religions but also gifted and inspired mystics, theologians and preachers who have revived already existing religions when they had fallen into empty platitudes and hollow ceremonialism.

These include: alternative religious movements ( Miller ), emergent religions, ( Ellwood ) and marginal religious movements ( Harper and Le Beau ).

These roles are not necessarily contradictory or even distinguished within the Chinese religious system, which often merge multiple ancient philosophies and religions.

These include Wiccans and followers of nature based religions.

These different groups varied enough for it to be possible to speak of Greek religions or " cults " in the plural, though most of them shared similarities.

These included the German philosopher Schopenhauer, who first read about Buddhism and other Asian religions at an early stage before he devised his philosophical system.

These factions include the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), which converted many of the world's remaining metropolitan centers into highly regulated city-states ; The Order, a religious order which created a new world religion from elements of all major religions and sociopolitical principles ; the " Knights Templar ", who advocate the complete prevention of biomodification ; the " Omar ", a society of heavily biomodified humans possessing a group mind, which runs a global black market, and wishes to become a transhuman race through biomodification ; and ApostleCorp, which seeks to help JC Denton achieve his goal of biomodifying every human on Earth, and thus equalizing the race.

These practices and their underlying assumptions were present in the culture of Greater Magadha at an early date and are likely to have influenced Jainism and other religions.

These include Hinduism, Qigong, Greek philosophy, Greek mythology, Roman history, Roman mythology, parts of the Abrahamic religions, Confucianism, Shintō, and Taoism, not to mention countless cinematic precursors.

These leagues did not consider themselves " minor " – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM Branch Rickey pioneered the farm system in the 1930s.

These sort of people are certainly still to be found, but there are many who consider TESOL their main profession.

These objects used to be referred to as " calcareous concretions " by some gemologists, even though a malacologist would still consider them to be pearls.

These movements may consider the actions of political prisoners morally justified against some system of governance, may claim innocence, or have varying understandings of what types of violence are morally and ethically justified.

; Local optimizations: These only consider information local to a basic block.

These images invite the reader to consider the incredible improbability of a large but finite number of monkeys working for a large but finite amount of time producing a significant work, and compare this with the even greater improbability of certain physical events.

These are relatively inexpensive and unintrusive, and many consider them a reasonable precaution for any urban space.

These scholars regard apostasy as a serious crime, but argue for the freedom to convert to and from Islam without legal penalty, and consider the aforementioned Hadith quote as insufficient justification for capital punishment.

These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.

These languages are of unique historical significance, since most historical linguists consider Taiwan to be the original homeland of the Austronesian language family.

These kids associate with gang members on a regular basis and tend to consider gang life normal and acceptable.

These traders brought their goods in sacks slung across their backs and this sack may have evolved into Kokopelli's familiar hump ; some tribes consider Kokopelli to have been a trader.

These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour ; exceptions include work by child artists, supervised training, certain categories of work such as those by Amish children, and others.

These views are disputed by traditional and conservative biblical scholars who consider Samson to be a literal historical figure and thus refute any connections to mythological heroes.

These are sometimes referred to as multi-moment correlation measures, in comparison to those that consider only second moment ( pairwise or quadratic ) dependence.

These models are open, and consider that it is hard to predict exactly the impact of a policy measure.

These pioneering agroecologists have helped to frame the foundation of what we today consider the interdisciplinary field of agroecology.

These differing results suggest that it is important for executive leaders to consider the match between strategic initiatives and organizational culture when determining how to embed a culture that produces competitive advantage.

These records, however, only consider NFL seasons going back to 1932, the first year in which official statistical records were kept.

These are genres and changes that started after 1912 coinciding with the New China, much of what westerners and even Chinese now consider to be music in the traditional Chinese style is in fact less than 70 years old.

These tribes have lived since time immemorial, around the mountain that they also consider as sacred ground, their place of worship and burial ground of Apo Sandawa, their great forefather.

These are two of the verses regarded by Christians as prophecy of the advent of Jesus, whom they consider to be the Christ and Messiah.

These terminologies denote the field of evolutionary computing and consider evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, and genetic programming as sub-areas.

These two dynasties were originally considered to be the full extent of this unified kingdom, but historians now consider the 13th Dynasty to at least partially belong to the Middle Kingdom.