only historical evolution will determine which ): an abrupt change.

* All historical forms of Christianity need to be transformed considerably to meet the continuing evolution of humanity.

They believe that the Orthodox Jewish movements, on the theological right, have erred by slowing down, or stopping, the historical development of Jewish law: " Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halakhic authority can continue the halakhic evolution today.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

Karl Popper used the term historicism in his influential books The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies, to mean: " an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their primary aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the ' rhythms ' or the ' patterns ', the ' laws ' or the ' trends ' that underlie the evolution of history ".

For example, the peculiar development of the works by modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg ( here an " ontogeny ") is generalized in many histories into a " phylogeny " – a historical development (" evolution ") of Western Music toward atonal styles of which Schoenberg is a representative.

From the materialist and functionalist viewpoints it overlaps the life sciences where ecology studies the evidences of historical facts or evolution.

Together, the serialized RFCs compose a continuous historical record of the evolution of Internet standards and practices.

Bethell ( 1998 ) contains much historical information on the historical evolution of real property and property rights.

His view was based on what may be the first in-depth lithic analysis of the objects in his collection, which led him to believe that they are artifacts and to suggest that the historical evolution of these artifacts followed a scheme.

In historical evolution terms, Kurmanji is less modified than Sorani and Kermanshahi in both phonetic and morphological structure.

* The Ape-Man Within ( 1995 )-Explores how human evolution of aggression and competition affected our historical and social development.

While most scholars recognize historical links between Darwin's theory and forms of social Darwinism, they also maintain that social Darwinism is not a necessary consequence of the principles of biological evolution and that using biological evolution as a justification for policies of inequality amounts to committing the naturalistic fallacy.

This view holds that the U. S. occupies a special niche among developed nations in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions, and unique origins.

From an evolutionary perspective, a convoluted structure such as the inverted retina can generally come about as a consequence of two alternative processes ; ( a ) an advantageous " good " compromise between competing functional limitations, or ( b ) as a historical maladaptive relic of the convoluted path of organ evolution and transformation.

The study of the relationship between words present in the language at one time is synchronic etymology, part of descriptive linguistics, and the study of word origins and evolution is diachronic etymology, part of historical linguistics.

In September 2005, several hundred surfers gathered in Newnham on Severn to celebrate 50 years since the first recorded attempt at surfing the Severn bore and to view the première of Longwave by Donny Wright, a historical film documenting the evolution of the sport since its inception in 1955.

For Juan José Larrea, and Pierre Bonnassie, " a Vascon expansionism in Aquitany is not proved and is not necessary to understand the historical evolution of this region ".

Finding the common linguistic features of the dialects, he presents the historical evolution from the first stratum ( the dialects closest to the Anatolian Romani of the 13th century ) to the second and third strata.

This also points to another historical development in the evolution of social work: once a profession engaged more in social control, it has become one more directed at social empowerment.

* the internal one, dealing with the fictional historical evolution of the language inside the imaginary world of Middle-earth.

Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City, depicting " the birth of Manhattan and the way the different waves of immigrants have shaped New York City's evolution ".

The book weaves together a mysterious tale of historical fiction with reference to Saipan's multi-ethnic past, from Japanese colonization to American WWII victory and post cold war evolution of the island.

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

Hinduism includes the Agamic religion, involving Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, historical groups such as the Ganapatyas, Kaumaras, Sauras, Bhairavas, Kapalikas, Kalamukhas, Pashupatas, and the historical Vedic religion including the Śrautas.

The multitude of deities, or Devas, of the historical Vedic religion have a subordinate and secondary status vis-a-vis the One Supreme God, a status that some authors have even tried to express by comparing it to that of Western demigods or angels ; Prakashanand Saraswati, in " The true history and the religion of India ", prefers the term " celestial gods ".

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

The documented history of Indian religions begins with the historical Vedic religion, the religious practices of the early Indo-Aryans, which were collected and later redacted into the Samhitas ( usually known as the Vedas ), four canonical collections of hymns or mantras composed in archaic Sanskrit.

Other scholars suggested the shramana traditions were separate and contemporaneous with Indo-Aryan religious practices of the historical Vedic religion.

** historical Vedic religion

The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and ( later ) Hinduism dated around 1700 – 1100 BC.

Among its direct roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India and, as such, Hinduism is often called the " oldest living religion " or the " oldest living major religion " in the world.

The qualifier " Vedic " is however something of a misnomer, as there is no mention of Jyotisha in the Vedas, and historical documentation suggests horoscopic astrology in the Indian subcontinent was a Hellenic influence post-dating the Vedic period.

The religion of the Vedic period ( 1500 BC to 500 BC ) ( also known as Vedism, Vedic Brahmanism, ancient Hinduism or, in a context of Indian antiquity, simply Brahmanism ) is a historical predecessor of modern Hinduism.

However aspects of the historical Vedic religion survived in corners of the Indian subcontinent, such as Kerala where the Nambudiri Brahmins continue the ancient Śrauta rituals, which are considered extinct in all other parts.

When the Asvamedha has been performed in historical times, it has been more to demonstrate Vedic orthodoxy than for genuinely religious reasons.

* Bharati Krishna Tirtha's Vedic mathematics ( not to be confused with historical Indian mathematics )

The historical book ' Jāti-Bhāṣkar ' mentions that those who were given grants along the Ganges by Ballāl Sena were called Gangopādhyāya ( literally ' the Vedic teachers in the regions around the Ganges ').

Adivasi beliefs vary by tribe, and are usually different from the historical Vedic religion, with its monistic underpinnings, Indo-European deities ( who are often cognates of ancient Iranian, Greek and Roman deities, e. g. Mitra / Mithra / Mithras ), lack of idol worship and lack of a concept of reincarnation.

The authors of the study write: " The historical record documents an influx of Vedic Indo-European-speaking immigrants into northwest India starting at least 3500 years ago.

Vedic mythology refers to the mythological aspects of the historical Vedic religion and Vedic literature, most notably alluded to in the hymns of the Rigveda.

It is a tradition of the historical Vedic religion and is distinguished from other historic schools later forming the Vaishnavism by its primary worship of Vishnu, later identified as the source of all Avatars.