HISTORY:
the study of the past. As an academic discipline, history emerged in the late
nineteenth century although great historians have reoccurred in Western civilization since
the early Greeks. The ABRAMIC RELIGIONS are essentially historical and encourage the study
of history which is disregarded by YOGIC RELIGIONS. Fundamentally history involves a
process of interpreting the past based on evidence available in the present and accounts
inherited from earlier times. Although each generation re-interprets history in light of
contemporary questions, history claims a scientific status through its careful use of
sources and weighing of evidence.
