Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

Brown ( New World ) archaeoastronomers in contrast have abundant ethnographic and historical evidence and have been described as ' cavalier ' on matters of measurement and statistical analysis.

A proven conspiracy theory, such as the notion that Nixon and his aides were behind the Watergate break-in and cover-up, is usually referred to as something else, such as investigative journalism or historical analysis.

" He sees the paranoid style in almost any critical historical or social-scientific analysis of oppression.

The movement's rabbinic authorities and its official Torah commentary ( Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary ) affirm that Jews should make use of modern critical literary and historical analysis to understand how the Bible developed.

When considering changes to halakha, Conservative Judaism's rabbinical authorities may rely on historical analysis as well as religious considerations.

In one study, a detailed analysis of historical fire data concluded that fire suppression activities have failed to exclude fire from southern California chaparral, as they have in Ponderosa Pine forests.

One core result of Holzkamp's historical and comparative analysis of human reproductive action, perception and cognition is a very specific concept of meaning that identifies symbolic meaning as historically and culturally constructed, purposeful conceptual structures that humans create in close relationship to material culture and within the context of historically specific formations of social reproduction.

The book's second part contained an extensive analysis on the modern state's institutionalized forms of " classroom learning " as the cultural – historical context that shapes much of modern learning and socialization.

The historical roots of functional analysis lie in the study of spaces of functions and the formulation of properties of transformations of functions such as the Fourier transform as transformations defining continuous, unitary etc.

Fundamental analysis is performed on historical and present data, but with the goal of making financial forecasts.

By a historical analysis of those forms, as applied to the verb, he furnished the first trustworthy materials for a history of the languages compared.

Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members.

Genealogical research is a complex process that uses historical records and sometimes genetic analysis to demonstrate kinship.

This sketch is abstract-real historical understanding needed for developing political strategy and tactics must involve " concrete analysis of concrete conditions " ( Vladimir Lenin ).

Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.

The process of historical analysis involves investigation and analysis of competing ideas, facts and purported facts to create coherent narratives that explain " what happened " and " why or how it happened ".

Modern historical analysis usually draws upon other social sciences, including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics.

The assessment may use a subjective qualitative analysis based on informed opinion, or where reliable dollar figures and historical information is available, the analysis may use quantitative analysis.

The arguments surrounding the authenticity of the Testimonium fall into two categories: internal arguments that rely on textual analysis and compare the passage with the rest of Josephus ' work ; and external arguments, that consider the wider cultural and historical context.

" George Watson, in 1966, claimed that Lowes's analysis of the poems " will stand as a permanent monument to historical criticism.

Jürgen Habermas believes historical materialism " needs revision in many respects ", especially because it has ignored the significance of communicative action.

Jäckel charged that Fest was guilty of diverting attention away from the issues by attacking Habermas's motives in criticizing Nolte, and not with concerning himself with what Habermas had to say Jäckel maintained that the Holocaust was indeed a " singular " historical event and criticized Fest for claiming otherwise Mommsen accused Fest of subordinating history to his right-wing politics in his defence of Nolte Mommsen went on to accuse Fest of simply ignoring the real issues such as the " psychological and institutional mechanisms " that explain why the German people accepted the Holocaust by accepting Nolte's claim of a " causal nexus " between Communism and fascism.

Through this work, he gave a historical-sociological account of the creation, brief flourishing, and demise of a " bourgeois " public sphere based on rational-critical debate and discussion: Habermas stipulates that, due to specific historical circumstances, a new civic society emerged in the eighteenth century.

# Hegemonic dominance and exclusion: In Rethinking the Public Sphere, Nancy Fraser revisits Habermas ’ historical description of the public sphere, and confronts it with " recent revisionist historiography ".

* Gary Habermas, PhD, philosophical theologian and apologist ; defender of Christ's historical Resurrection

Recent historiography of the salons has been dominated by Jürgen Habermas ' work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ( triggered largely by its translation into French, in 1978, and then English, in 1989 ), which argued that the salons were of great historical importance.

In an essay entitled " The Age of Tyrants " first published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on July 31, 1986, Hildebrand called Habermas ’ s article “ A Kind of Settlement of Damages ” a "… dark brew of politics and scholarship, of weltanschauung and historical perspective, of prejudices and facts ”.

Hildebrand argued that because Habermas was not a historian, but a philosopher, he was not qualified to write on historical topics.

Rather, Habermas consistently and studiously distorts the texts, which unfortunately does not study, but more accurately, haunts … To want to justify Habermas ’ s treatment of texts contradicts everything that his customary in historical scholarship and in the area of everyday life.

Philosopher Jürgen Habermas wrote of Bellah's work: " This great book is the intellectual harvest of the rich academic life of a leading social theorist who has assimilated a vast range of biological, anthropological, and historical literature in the pursuit of a breathtaking project ...

In 1985, Dr. Gary Habermas and Antony Flew debated the question of Jesus ' resurrection as a literal and historical / physical event, before a crowd of 3000 people.

The brief notes introducing each work offer salient historical or technical points, and many listeners are probably grateful for being intelligently taken by the hand through an often difficult maze.

Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).

Marker begins the film with the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin, which Marker points out is a fictitious creation of Eisenstein which has still influenced the image of the historical event.

If there is a grain of historical truth behind these legends, it may be that Suizei's bare narrative points to one of the chieftains of four clans of the Unebi region who disputed among themselves in the struggle to achieve hegemeony in the Yamato area.

" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

Regarding the historical inaccuracies of the novel, historian Richard N. Current points out:

Sakmann points out that he complained that too much historical writing combined boring detail, outrageous lies, and narrow-minded presentation.

Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

It extends from The Paseo and Independence Avenue through Indian Mound on Gladstone Boulevard at Belmont Boulevard with many historical points and architectural landmarks.

The evidence points to the historical existence of a woman named Lucretia and a historical incident that played a critical part in the real downfall of a real monarchy.

Also in 2000, she agreed to act as the artist and architect for the Confluence Project, a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the Columbia River and Snake River in the states of Washington and Oregon.

This was in fact true of the historical outlaw of Sherwood Forest Roger Godberd, whose points of similarity to the Robin Hood of the ballads have often been noted.

Aside from the historical significance of these events, they also carry larger prize funds than any other tour event and are worth double the number of ranking points to the champion than in the next echelon of tournaments, the Masters 1000 ( men ) and Premier events ( women ).

In addition to the historical events outlined above, the Book of Ether contains several interpolations by Moroni, regarding points of doctrine or lessons illuminated by the actions of the Jaredites, such as how faith works and the importance of following Jesus Christ to be blessed as a nation.

Eleanor even praises history books, and while Catherine points out the obvious fiction of the speeches given to important historical characters through, Eleanor enjoys them for what they are.

In some historical fiction, famous events appear from points of view not recorded in history, with fictional characters either observing or actively participating in these actual events.

This accurately describes the points of culture-level and supernatural element and also immediately distinguishes it from the cloak-and-sword ( historical adventure ) story — and ( quite incidentally ) from the cloak-and-dagger ( international espionage ) story too!

This problem was one of the points causing C. S. Lewis, for example, to reject the view " that every statement in Scripture must be historical truth ".

He brought in several consultants to consider a design from historical, heraldic, and artistic points of view.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

His position in the controversy on the new Hamburg siddur ( prayer book ) ( 1842 ) displeased both parties ; the liberals were dissatisfied because, instead of declaring that their prayer-book was in accord with Jewish tradition, he pointed out inconsistencies from the historical and dogmatic points of view ; and the Orthodox were dissatisfied because he declared changes in the traditional ritual permissible ( l. c.