All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud.

today ’ s galus seeks to legitimize and mainstream the abominable practice ( toeiva ) of homosexuality.

As a result, Mormons today are probably less integrated with mainstream society than they were in the early 1960s.

The great differences between that school's interests and methods on the one hand and those of the neoclassical school ( from which modern mainstream economics largely derives ) on the other, explain why Weber's influence on economics today is hard to discern.

Many aspects of modernist design still persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture today, though its previous dogmatism has given way to a more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama. In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important.

Neoclassical economics dominates microeconomics, and together with Keynesian economics forms the neoclassical synthesis, which dominates mainstream economics today.

Its members today include most mainstream Christian churches, but not the Roman Catholic Church, which sends accredited observers to meetings.

One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan's Articolo 31, then and still today produced by Franco Godi, who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.

Living in a relatively isolated region until the early 20th century, Cajuns today are largely assimilated into the mainstream society and culture.

This style of tap led to what is today known as " Broadway style ," which is more mainstream in American culture.

Most Tejanos today reside in South Texas and have a form of folk and popular music, greatly influenced by ( yet quite distinctive from ) both traditional genres of Mexican music and mainstream genres of American music.

All mainstream forms of Judaism today consider themselves heirs of Rabbinic Judaism and, ultimately, the Pharisees.

None of these hypotheses has wide acceptance, and mainstream scholarship today accepts that the author's name cannot be established.

The three principals wanted to capitalize on the physically fit lifestyle, which today has gone mainstream.

Public acceptance of this scientific revolution was, and remains, uneven but the mainstream scholarly community soon arrived at a consensus, which holds today, that Genesis 1 – 11 is a highly schematic literary work representing theology / mythology rather than history.

* Motown Records: Established 1960, Motown was and remains the company's main label for mainstream R & B / soul music ( and, today, hip hop music as well ).

Due to these features the regenerative kilns are today mainstream technology under conditions of substantial fuel costs.

Lindzen first published this " iris " theory in 2001 < ref name =" eaps ">, and offered more support in a 2009 paper, but today " most mainstream researchers consider Dr. Lindzen ’ s theory discredited.

As a result, Coal Black and similar cartoons have been removed from circulation and are little known today among mainstream audiences.

At the time of their foundation, the religious traditions considered " established " or " mainstream " today were seen as new religious movements.

Their views of God are considered mainstream by many Jews of all denominations even today.

The system did not become mainstream though even today it has its fans and benefits from ongoing development.

Classic laïkó as it is known today, was the mainstream popular music of Greece during the 60s and 70s.

Contemporary laïkó ( σύγχρονο λαϊκό ), ( laiko-pop ) ( also called Modern laïkó ) is currently Greece's mainstream music genre in today nightlife.

These are not accepted as canonical by most mainstream Christian denominations ; only the Ethiopian Orthodox Church recognizes the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, Acts of Paul, and several Old Testament books that most other denominations reject, but it should be noted that this church does not adhere to an explicit canon.

Much like punk, the black metal community generally condemns the seeking of mainstream success or attention, preferring the genre to remain underground.

In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.

Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.

After the genre had started to go out of fashion with mainstream audiences in 1981, the mod revival scene went underground and successfully reinvented itself through a series of clubs, bands and fanzines that breathed fresh life into the genre, culminating in another burst of creative acceptance in 1985.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

It proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular.

Audiences for them lessened and fewer musical films were produced as the genre became less mainstream and more specialized.

By the turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day and The Offspring brought the genre widespread popularity.

" Among the responses to Lethem was one from the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction who asked: " When is it SF genre ever going to realize it can't win the game of trying to impress the mainstream?

The New Weird movement and the genre of slipstream fiction occupies a space similar to that of the New Wave movement, in relationship to the mainstream of science fiction and fantasy.

Massive Attack, a British trip hop group which helped bring the genre to mainstream success in the 1990s.

The departure from mainstream literature also meant that patronage of this genre was limited to the masses and not to the literati, which led to the stifling of the development of the wuxia genre.

Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

During the 1960s, Shuzo Fujimoto was the first to explore twist fold tessellations in any systematic way, coming up with dozens of patterns and establishing the genre in the origami mainstream.

Generally considered to be a staple of the point-and-click adventure genre, the game and its sequels were critically acclaimed in the mainstream press at the time.

The opposite of the mainstream are subcultures, countercultures, cult followings, and ( in fiction ) genre.

The alternative to mainstream films are sub genre films that appeal to a certain audience, such as African American films.

Low budget films, art films, and experimental films are often the starting point for entertainers who wish to enter into the mainstream circuit or a sub genre circuit.

The first of those encapsulates all music styles generated from Latin countries, such as salsa, merengue, tango and bachata ; as well as other styles derived from a more mainstream genre, such as Latin pop, rock, jazz and hip-hop.

Musicologist Richard J. Ripani identified Jackson as a leader in the development of contemporary R & B, as her 1986 album Control and its successor Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 created a unique blend of genre and sound effects, that ushered in the use of rap vocals into mainstream R & B.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

Though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genre's profile, and opened doors for other bands.