The phrase "alternative beliefs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different viewpoints, ideologies, or perspectives that differ from the mainstream or widely accepted beliefs.
Example: "In the discussion of climate change, it is important to consider alternative beliefs that challenge the prevailing scientific consensus."
Alternatives: "different perspectives" or "divergent views".
McEwan struggled to find scientific grounding for such alternative beliefs.
Alternative beliefs: join the Scientologists and discover how inter-planetary war created mankind.
Less than four months ago, extreme actions by "true believers" of one of the world's great religions demonstrated their antipathy to alternative beliefs in a hideous manner.
The West has developed its own practitioners, largely as part of a New Age collage of alternative beliefs about nature, the earth, healing, and spirituality.
He then travelled to Mexico to visit his mother, who had remarried; he spent eight months there and began a lifelong interest in alternative beliefs and practices such as shamanism.
And in his famous Letter 93, which presents an early argument against religious toleration, the medieval Catholic theologian Saint Augustine laments the way in which old customs produce a closed-minded resistance to alternative beliefs and practices that, he argues, is best broken by the threat of punishment.
And geeks around the world would have developed an alternative belief system based on... Smokey And The Bandit.
Their understanding from his evaluations, though, was that "Marko's delusions represented an alternative belief structure — the equivalent of Wicca or some other alternative religion".
It always goes with an alternative belief-system – typically, a set of ideas that serves to show the modern west is the high point of human development.
At the Rochester school, much will hinge on whether teachers spend significant time in class on the doctrine of creationism as science or simply note that it is an alternative belief.
The title is a reference to Petr Uspenskii's study of various faiths, conducted between 1921 and 1946 in search of an alternative belief system, something akin to a global synthesis of all existing models.
