• Western tradition can refer to: Western culture Western mystery tradition The Western Tradition, a 1989 television series of lectures by Eugen Weber American...
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    Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range...
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  • "In the Western Tradition" is a science fiction short story by Phyllis Eisenstein. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction...
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    to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning. These academics and...
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    The Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) is a Paleoindian archaeological culture known from the Intermountain West of North America, particularly the Great...
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    Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other). Western Christianity is composed of the Latin...
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  • traversed the whole spectrum of western thought, tradition, civilization, and progress in The Western Tradition, Weber pointed at some of the profound...
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    "courage", but includes the aspects of perseverance and patience. In the Western tradition, notable thoughts on courage have come from philosophers Socrates...
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    direct the subtle breath to achieve supernormal powers, immortality, or liberation. Subtle body in the Western tradition is called the body of light. The concept...
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  • Western philosophy refers to the philosophical thought, traditions and works of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical...
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    is notable for his landmark analysis in 2013 of antijudaism as a constitutive principle of the Western tradition, and his argument for a longue durée...
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    catches the bouquet, or the garter is sold in a raffle instead of being tossed. This tradition is now slightly less common in Western cultures, where some...
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  • Smith-Schuster. In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of double surname (or double-barrelled surname). If the two names are joined...
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    the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday; some Orthodox traditions have a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition. The Lutheran...
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    ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism...
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    Sacramental bread (category Bread in culture)
    elements of the Eucharist. The bread may be either leavened or unleavened, depending on tradition. Catholic theology generally teaches that at the Words of...
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    Western law comprises the legal traditions of Western culture, with roots in Roman law and canon law. As Western culture shares a Graeco-Roman Classical...
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    Western tradition. Broadway – refers to theatrical performances presented in the Theater District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan...
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    the original on 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2015-08-23. Nicholas Campion, "The Great Year: Astrology, Millenarianism and History in the Western Tradition"...
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    Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards...
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    by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his...
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  • Tetrabiblos (2nd century CE), which in turn was a continuation of Hellenistic and ultimately Babylonian traditions. Western astrology is largely horoscopic...
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  • cultural origins and traditions. Such traditions often date to a period regarded as the "golden age" of music for a particular culture. The following tables...
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    through the Byzantine cultural sphere in the 12th century. It reached Western Christian tradition still in the 12th century, via the crusades. The knights...
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    among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self...
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  • "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in The Egoist...
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    The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West, involving texts...
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    Madonna (art) (redirect from The Madonna)
    represent this original icon or to be a direct copy of it. In the Western tradition, depictions of the Madonna were greatly diversified by Renaissance masters...
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  • This is a list of philosophers from the Western tradition of philosophy. Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BC). Of the Milesian school. Believed that all...
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    Other in the Western Tradition, by Jacob Pandian and Susan Parman, states that "some exclude from Oceania the nontropical islands such as Ryukyu, the Aleutian...
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