Some followers adopted partial vegetarianism.

More recent followers of so-called New Age religious ideas have adopted older New Thought concepts.

Early followers of Voodoo in the United States adopted the image of the Catholic Saints to their spirits.

After his execution by burning in 1415, followers of Hus adopted the "lay chalice" as an important symbol of their movement.

Like all prophets in Islam, Jesus is considered to have been a Muslim, as he preached that his followers should adopt the "straight path", as commanded by God.

One contemporary anthropologist has suggested that Paul and his followers adopted this ritual to repel traditionally minded Jews and so to set themselves apart from Jewish communities.

Kirill's followers adopted his ways and would later become known as the startsy from out the Volga with Nil Sorsky as their leader.

It exhorts the followers to give up all the past things of Hinduism and adopt Islam.

In 1976 he went into seclusion with Yahweh Ben Yahweh, founder of the Miami religious sect the Nation of Yahweh, whose followers adopt the surname Israel.

While rallies after Mr. Hariri's death stuck with the red and white of the Lebanese flag, General Aoun's followers have adopted orange for their banners, T-shirts and scarves.