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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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• Thought Form
  ...n [[interpretation]] of the Tibetan concept. Its concept is related to the Western [[philosophy]] and [[practice]] of [[magick]].
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• Islam
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], [[Jesus]], and other [[prophets]]. Islamic tradition holds that Judaism and Christianity distorted the messages of these prophet ...n of rulings that touch on virtually all aspects of life and society. This tradition encompasses everything from practical matters like dietary laws and banking
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• Miniature
  ...ait_miniature portrait miniatures], which did however grow from the same [[tradition]] and at least initially use similar [[techniques]]. ...l paintings to be kept in albums, which are also called miniatures, as the Western equivalents in watercolor and other mediums are not. These include [https:/
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• Wedding
  ...emphasized [[sexual]] [[purity]]. Within the [[modern]] 'white wedding' [[tradition]], a white [[dress]] and veil are unusual [[choices]] for a woman's second ...t of religious weddings in Europe and America, but the [[origin]] of the [[tradition]] is unclear. Historians like Vicky Howard point out that belief in the "[[
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• Clown
  ...f historical performances, and it is [[difficult]] to point out a singular tradition or even a few different ones as being the primary precursors to clowns. How ...may or may not have [[influenced]] what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown]
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...osophical_tradition Western philosophical tradition] and also more broadly Western culture. By questioning the dominant [[discourses]], and trying to [[modify Derrida called his [[challenge]] to the [[assumptions]] of Western culture "deconstruction". On some occasions, Derrida referred to deconstruc
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• Hymn
  ...lms the Psalms], a collection of [[songs]] from [[Judaism]]. The Western [[tradition]] of hymnody begins with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Hymns H
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• Wouter J. Hanegraaff
  ...President of the [https://www.esswe.org/ European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism] (ESSWE). ...ll as of four collective volumes on the study of religions and the history Western esotericism. He is member of the editorial board of the journals ''[[Religi
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• Plato
  ...oted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical [[tradition]] is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
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• 98:0 The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...istianized]. The [[ideals]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Western world] were basically [[Socratic]], and its later [[religious]] [[philosoph [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Tradition
  The word '''tradition''' comes from the [[Latin]] ''traditionem'', acc. of ''traditio'' which mea ...generation to the next, often [[oral]]ly. For example, we can speak of the tradition of sending birth announcements.
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• Opera
  ...c_Flute The Magic Flute]'' (''Die Zauberflöte''), a landmark in the German tradition.
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• Rodeo
  ...orking rodeo. It was this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy [[tradition]] of the United States and Canada. ...queros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western [[United States]], western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting event that involves hor
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• Thomas Aquinas
  ...riest]] and an immensely influential [[philosopher]] and theologian in the tradition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism scholasticism], within whic ...ather of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomism Thomism]. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_
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• 195:0 After Pentecost
  ...stern world]], the beneficiaries of [[Greek]] [[culture]], had a revered [[tradition]] of a great [[past]]. They could [[contemplate]] the [[inheritance]] of gr ...uman race embodied in the [[ethics]], [[morality]], and [[religions]] of [[Western civilization]].
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• Esotericism
  In Western, English-speaking societies today, the term "esotericism" has come to infor A variety of past [[tradition]]s could be classified as forms of "esotericism" due to their "inner" focus
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• Genealogical
  ...s]] and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use [[oral tradition]]s, historical [[records]], [[genetic]] [[analysis]], and other [[records]] Historically, in [[Western]] [[societies]] the [[focus]] of genealogy was on the [https://en.wikipedia
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• Contemplation
  ...God.[3] As a [[technique]], theoria is [[expressed]] by the [[ascetic]] [[tradition]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm Hesychasm]. Hesychasm is [[co ==Western Christianity==
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• Sculpture
  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Western] tradition of sculpture began in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Ancient
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• Mindfulness
  ...ted from the [[Buddhist]] [[tradition]], is increasingly being employed in Western [[psychology]] to alleviate a variety of mental and [[physical]] conditions
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• Tragedy
  ...role historically in the self-definition of [[Western civilization]]. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to in
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• 195:4 The European Dark Ages
  ...e [[individual]] was almost lost before the overshadowing [[authority]], [[tradition]], and [[dictation]] of the church. A new spiritual menace arose in the [[c ...ough the long night of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_civilization Western civilization] and was still functioning as a [[moral]] [[influence]] in the
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• Lament
  ...the spontaneous lament of women chanters in the [[creation]] of the [[oral tradition]] that resulted in the Iliad[4] The [[material]] of lament, the "sound of t # Margaret Alexiou, Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge University Press) 1974
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• 96:2 The Semitic Peoples
  ...were a superior and well-[[organized]] group of mixed Semites who held the western section of [[Palestine]], along the [[Mediterranean]] coast. Racially the [ [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Monk
  The term monk is [[generic]] and in some religious or philosophical [[tradition]]s it therefore may be considered interchangeable with other terms such as ...the rest of [[society]], or someone celibate/[[focus]]ed on God alone. The Western rule giver Benedict of Nursia understood it as [[meaning]] the latter, name
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• Silence
  ...disinterest, or any number of other emotions. Because of this, people in Western cultures feel uneasy when one party is silent and will usually try their be ...use silence during times of uncertainty or anger in the way most people in Western cultures would be vocal. The goal is to observe and anticipate what the ot
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• Pantheism
  ...stinguished pantheist in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy]. He [[argued]] that since substance is completely self-sufficie ...], especially the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_Brahmanism Vedic] [[tradition]] of Indian philosophy, pantheism is part of a rejection of [[polytheism]].
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• Pathology
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age] and in Western Europe during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance Italia ...[[systems]]. Although the medical practice of pathology grew out of the [[tradition]] of investigative pathology, most modern pathologists do not perform origi
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• Storyteller
  ...[[memory]] and then passed from [[generation]] to generation. However, in Western, literate societies, written and televised [[media]] has largely surpassed ...changes]] and [[adaptations]] during this [[process]]. When and where oral tradition was pushed back in favor of [[print]] media, the literary [[idea]] of the [
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• 1997-08-27-How He Taught
  ...assist the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Western_Mind western mind] on [[focus]]ing and redirecting his thought to find [[God]] within hi ...ssist those who have questions of the great beyond. I have come from the [[tradition]] that believed in the [[concept]] of past lives, taught [[reincarnation]].
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• Elite
  ...of selection for elite education can be seen in the [[Occident|Western]] [[tradition]] as well, for example in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9cole
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• 2001-12-23-About The Master
  ===='''''[[Tradition]]''''', '''''[[Islam]]''''', '''''[[Christianity]]'''''==== ...here will be many, many Muslims who will break free of the shackles of the tradition that holds them down. They will still be Muslims, but they will [[embrace]]
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• Last Judgment
  ...d by a great part of Christian mainstream churches; the Esoteric Christian tradition—composed, among others, by the Essenes and Rosicrucians—the Spiritualis ...of my God and he shall go no more out". However, this western [[esoteric]] tradition states—like those who have had a [[near-death experience]]—that after t
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• 2013-12-23-Celebrating Special Dates
  ...just as important as December 31st, and so are all other days of the year. Western Christians have marked these dates as special, while other cultures and rel [[Category: Tradition]]
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• The Helianx Proposition/page 72
  circulating around the Western world for the last 40,000 years have spoken of Noe's intervention Over time, an endless [[oral tradition]] had further simplified the story,
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• Falun Gong
  ...]]" based on the teachings of its founder, a "cultivation system" in the [[tradition]] of Chinese antiquity, and sometimes a religion or [[new religious movemen ...ia.org/wiki/Taiji_(philosophy) Taiji] ([[yin-yang]]) symbols of the Daoist tradition.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_gong]
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• Oral Tradition
  ...]] of the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]''. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of [[culture|cultural]] material through vocal The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of [[oral history]], which is the
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• Maitreya
  Maitreya is sometimes represented seated on a [[throne]] Western-style, and [[venerated]] both in Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna [https://en. Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in the Buddhist [[tradition]] is to appear on [[Earth]], achieve complete [[enlightenment]], and teach
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• Compassion
  ...merous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious [[tradition]]s as among the greatest of [[virtue]]s. ...]] is that of [[ahimsa]]. The exact definition of ahimsa varies from one [[tradition]] to another. Ahimsa is a [[Sanskrit]] [[word]] which can be translated mos
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• 94:1 The Salem Teachings in Vedic India
  ...] [[invaders]] from the north and west. At this time only the northern and western portions of the [[peninsula]] had been extensively permeated by the [https: [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Western Philosophy
  ...hat refers to [[philosophy|philosophical]] thinking in the [[Western world|Western or Occidental world]], as opposed to [[Eastern philosophy|Eastern or Orient ...ically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of [[Western culture|Western civilization]], beginning with [[Greek philosophy]] in [[ancient Greece]].
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• 125:2 Jesus and the Passover
  ...those who hailed from the [[Orient|Far-Eastern]] and the remote [[Occident|Western countries]]. As a result of these [[contacts]] the lad began to entertain a [[Category: Tradition]]
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• Auctoritas
  ...under [[Founding Fathers]]), as an alternative to an intervening [[Western tradition]] of [[absolutism]], claiming absolute authority, as from [[God]] (see [[Di
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• 195:3 Under the Roman Empire
  195:3.2 [[Rome]] overcame the [[tradition]] of [[nationalism]] by imperial [[universalism]] and for the first time in ...ld's [[history]] for a [[good]] [[religion]] to make [[progress]] in the [[Western world]]. During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first centur
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...'. Pan Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-330-48730-2., but it draws on an oracular [[tradition]] that goes back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic neolithic] tim ...[integrate]] concepts of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_philosophy Western philosophy], as steps toward modernization. By the time of the [https://en.
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• Occult
  ...h back into antiquity and which may be described as the Western esoteric [[tradition]]. Its principal ingredients have been identified as Gnosticism, the Hermet ...17th century, these kinds of [[idea]]s that are alternatively described as Western esotericism had a brief revival. Alchemy used to be common among highly imp
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• The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy
  ==The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy== There are two (or three) main highways along which western speculation about the
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• Duality
  ...e "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between [[goodness|good]] and [[evil]]. ...erceives a "self" that is distinct from the rest of the world. In mystic [[tradition]]s such as Zen or Sufism, a key to enlightenment is "transcending" this sor
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• Byzantine
  ...t the end of that century with the division of the empire into Eastern and Western halves under the sons of Theodosios I, Arkadios and Honorius. There is much ...anied by a cultural flowering that is here called “pre-Renaissance” (the [[tradition]]al term is “Komnenian renaissance”). Byz. took substantial steps towar
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• Philosophy
  ...470 BC–399 BC) ancient Greek philosopher credited with the foundation for Western philosophy.]]The '''history of [[philosophy]]''' is the study of philosophi ...[[Modernism|modern]]; [[Eastern hemisphere|Eastern]], [[Western hemisphere|Western]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of ph
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• Indian Philosophy
  ...e this definition, explaining that a cornerstone of Indian philosophy is a tradition of respect for multiple views: *[[Purva Mimamsa]] (or simply Mimamsa), the tradition of Vedic exegesis, with emphasis on Vedic ritual, and
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• Autumn
  ...August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends 31 May. The vast ...f the primary [[harvest]], has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western [[cultures]], [[personification]]s of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed [
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• Literary theory
  ..."texts" comprises little more than "books belonging to the [[Western canon|Western literary canon]]." But the principles and methods of literary theory have b ...he [[New Critics]], and de Man was trained in the European [[hermeneutic]] tradition).
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• Spirit Guides
  "Spirit guide" is a term used by the Western [[tradition]] of Spiritualist Churches, [[mediums]], and psychics to describe an entity
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• Etymology
  ...ough etymological [[research]] originally grew from the [[philological]] [[tradition]], currently much etymological research is done on language families where ...ndicate former meanings of words to de-center the "violent hierarchies" of Western philosophy.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology]
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• Theology
  * understand more truly his or her own religious [[tradition]],<ref>See, e.g., Daniel L. Migliore, ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Int * understand more truly another religious tradition,<ref>See, e.g., Michael S. Kogan, 'Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity
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• New Religious Movement
  ...]] that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious [[tradition|body]]. ...]s coined to refer to this [[phenomenon]]. The term was adopted in turn by Western scholars as an alternative to the older term [[cult]], which acquired a pej
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• Humanities
  The classics, in the Western academic tradition, refer to cultures of [[classical antiquity]], namely the Ancient Greek and ...y not have [[nationalism|nationalistic]] implications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature. The term "literature" has different mean
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• Note
  ...a [[sound]]; and 2) a pitched sound itself. Notes are the "atoms" of much Western music: discretizations of musical [[phenomena]] that facilitate performance ...ecific [[octave]]. For example, the now-standard tuning [[pitch]] for most Western music, 440 Hz, is named a′ or A4. There are two formal ways to define eac
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...pecific time and place. Many claim that geographical and time notions of "Western" and "Eastern" philosophy is too vague and imprecise, committing the [[fall ...rlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decades, unlik
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• 92:6 The Composite Religions
  ...ution]] and the religions of [[revelation]]. The [[Hebrews]] were the only western people to follow their early evolutionary gods straight through to the [[Go [[Category: Tradition]]
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• History of the Concept of the Mind, v. 2 - Introduction
  *Introduction:The Heterodox Tradition in Western Philosophy *Contentst: Introduction: the heterodox tradition in western philosophy; Ideas about human nature in the ancient Near East; The ancient
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• 95:1 The Salem Religion in Mesopotamia
  ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouin Semites] who had filtered in from the western [[desert]] and the [[barbarian]] horsemen who had come down from the north. [[Category: Tradition]]
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• 77:4 Nodite Centers of Civilization
  77:4.3 1. The western or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syrian Nodites]. The remnants of th ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and since much of your [[tradition]] of these [[ancient]] times was acquired in connection with the [https://e
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• Advent
  ...and often the singing of the Advent carol O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. Among Western Christians three traditional feasts during Advent are regaining the popular ...s before Christmas, except among the Armenians, who continue to follow the tradition of Jerusalem by observing the Nativity on January 6 and the Annunciation ni
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• Babaji
  ...one source of [[information]] is book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Govindan Marshall Govindan]. Acc ...the trend of modern times, especially of the influence and complexities of Western civilization, and realizes the necessity of spreading the self-liberations
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• The Enlightenment
  ...ment''', or simply The Enlightenment, is a term used to describe a time in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in ...pretentious i[[Intellectual|ntellectualism]], unreasonable contempt for [[tradition]] and authority, etc.
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...from the school because his answers were contrary to then orthodox Islamic tradition and became leader of a new school, and systematized the radical opinions of ...g Greek, [[Hindu]], and other pre-Islamic knowledge to the [[Christian]] [[Western world|West]]. They contributed to making [[Aristotle]] known in Christian [
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• Chakra
  ...st, located within the subtle body. Adherents of [[Hindu]] and [[New Age]] tradition believe the chakras interact with the body's ductless endocrine glands and ...l]] practices and religions, the concept of chakras have become popular in Western [[culture]] with new-age religion and medical practitioners.
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• 1987-09-10-Prayer, Islam
  ...y know, but he doesn’t [[understand]] that, he thinks [[the west]], or the western [[influence]], but they are the same basis, the [[God]] basis, can't rememb ===='''''[[Tradition]]'''''====
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• Intervention
  ...flict lead to a famine which caused great [[suffering]], widely covered in western press outlets but totally ignored by government leaders in the name of neut ...losophers from the Enlightenment and more generally by a Judeo-Christian [[tradition]]. Intervention has often been an action directed by Northern states toward
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• Prophecy
  ===PROPHETIC FOUNDERS OF RELIGIOUS TRADITION=== ...(in some cases) cultic functionaries and inspired interpreters of ancient tradition. The evidence indicates, however, that prophetic legitimacy depended primar
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• Humanity
  Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour ...action during this time saw an equivalent influence of other cultures into Western art.
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• Family
  Anthropologists have often supposed that the family in a [[tradition]]al society forms the primary economic unit. This economic role has gradual ===Western kinship===
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• Hermeneutics
  '''Hermeneutics''' is the study of [[interpretation]] theory. [[Tradition]]al hermeneutics - which includes [[Bible|Biblical]] hermeneutics - refers ...one of the earliest (c.360 BC) extant philosophical works in the Western [[tradition]] to deal with the relationship between [[language]] and [[logic]] in a com
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• Religion
  ...dition''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Tradition this link].</center> ...tand the subject [[matter]] of religion from within a particular religious tradition, [[Intellectual|scholars]] of religion study [[human]] religious [[behavior
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• Upanishads
  ...ve left us no closer to ''understanding either their 'location' in Tantric tradition or their place within the Vedic corpus. [...] At stake for the Tantric is n ...result of the influence of these writers, the Upanishads gained renown in Western countries.
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• Conservatism
  ...hy|political philosophies]] that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. ...ing, a way of living."''<ref>As part of introduction to ''The Conservative Tradition'', ed. R.J. White (London: Nicholas Kaye, 1950)</ref></blockquote>
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...a separate section at the end of his [[Old Testament]], following English tradition. In Greek circles, however, these books are not traditionally called ''Apoc ...cabees|3]] and [[4 Maccabees]] because they are not traditionally found in western Bibles, although they are in the [[Septuagint]]. Similarly, the [[Book of E
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• Salem
  [[Image:Western wall jerusalem night.jpg|right|thumb||230px|The [[Western Wall]], one of the holiest sites in [[Judaism]]]] ...he [[Second Temple]]. It is mentioned in the Bible 632 times. Today, the [[Western Wall]], a remnant of the Second Temple, is a holy site for Jews, second onl
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• Determinism
  ...ies and philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from [[tradition]]s throughout the world. ==Determinism in Eastern tradition==
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• Alchemy
  ...is, in Islamic countries to Hermetic and esoteric mystical schools, in the Western Middle Ages and Renaissance to Hermetism, Christian and sectarian mysticism ...ibility of alchemical texts for the noninitiate becomes almost a cliché in Western post-Renaissance alchemical literature. An author quoted by the fifteenth-c
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• Obedience
  Obedience is regarded as a [[virtue]] in many [[tradition]]al [[cultures]]; historically, children have been expected to be obedient ...wentieth century marked a remarkable reduction in respect for authority in Western [[culture]]s, and greater respect for [[individual]] [[judgment]] as a basi
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• Wealth
  ...hat supplied locally grown food). Agricultural economics continues these [[tradition]]s in the analyses of modern agricultural policy and related ideas of wealt ...respect with giveaways of wealth to the poorer members of society. Such [[tradition]]s make what are today often seen as [[government]] responsibilities into m
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• Intellectual History
  ...[[Geistesgeschichte]], the historical study of ideas has engaged not only western intellectual traditions, including, but not limited to, those in the [[far The social/intellectual context in the writings of western [[European history]] includes:
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• Imperium
  ...such magistrate was also escorted by [[lictor]]s bearing the [[fasces]] ([[tradition]]al [[symbol]]s of imperium and authority); when outside the [[pomerium]], ...God) in the person of the Pope and the secular ''imperium'' of the revived western Emperor since Charlemagne. Both would refer to the heritage of Roman law by
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• Capitalism
  ...lourished during the Late Middle Ages. Capitalism has been dominant in the Western world since the end of feudalism. From Britain, it gradually spread through ...tition [https://mises.org/story/1780 Free Trade and the American Political Tradition].
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  Views presented in early Buddhist tradition tend to support the notion that Buddhism is a practical philosophy rather t ...s pervasive inclusion of supernatural entities (not "gods" in the sense of Western [[monotheism]], of course)
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• Art History
  ===The critical tradition=== ...led an impressive library in Hamburg devoted to the study of the classical tradition in post-classical art and culture. Under Saxl's auspices, this library was
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• African Philosophy
  ...ticulated and documented philosophy exists, there is still a philosophical tradition. Put simply, even if there were no known African philosophers, there was A In the Christian tradition, [[Augustine of Hippo]] was a cornerstone of Christian philosophy and theol
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• Secularism
  ...argued that secularism is a movement toward modernization, and away from [[tradition]]al religious [[values]]. This type of secularism, on a social or philosoph ...f_Enlightenment Age of Enlightenment] in Europe, and plays a major role in Western society. The principles, but not necessarily practices, of separation of ch
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• Guilt
  ...cs]] as understood in [[Western civilization]]. This has led some[who?] in Western civilizations to question why the [[word]] [[ethos]] was adapted from Ancie
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• The Qur’ān
  ...alive, although the primary method of transmission was [[oral]]. Muslim [[tradition]] agrees that it was fixed in writing shortly after Muhammad's death by ord ...ent is qeryānā which refers to “scripture reading” or “lesson”. While most Western scholars consider the [[word]] to be derived from the Syriac, the majority
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• History
  ...in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionately on the [[Western world]]. [[Jack Goody]] (2007) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1UVi4 Sources that can give light on the past, such as [[oral tradition]], [[linguistics]], and [[genetics]], have become accepted by many mainstr
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• Super-consciousness
  ...ciousness]] (New Thought), are expressions used in various [[spiritual]] [[tradition]]s to denote the consciousness of a [[human being]] who has reached a highe ...[moment]] filtered through his unconscious conditioning – a ‘reality’ that western psychology calls ‘projection’ (i.e., of the [[content]]s of the unconsc
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• 2005-04-05-Region of Van
  ...was not however the only place of such learning. There were places within Western parts of what you now know as Turkey, as there were places further to the N ...iki/Asclepius Asclepius], but know that there have been healing arts and [[tradition]]s practiced upon this site for millennia prior to the building of these re
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• University
  ...e first of two revivals of ancient [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] learning in the Western world, the second commencing with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia ...emic costumes, rituals, and ceremonies provide an impression of unbroken [[tradition]] through the ages, as do the forms of teaching. But the conservatism of un
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• Density
  ...ept]] of planes of existence might be seen as deriving from shamanic and [[tradition]]al [[mythological]] ideas of a vertical world-axis — for example a cosmi ...ovement]]. The term is also found in some Eastern teachings that have some Western influence, such as the cosmology of [[Sri Aurobindo]] and some of the later
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• Power (sociology)
  *[[Social influence]] of [[tradition]] (compare ascribed power) ...In Russia, this power was lacking, allowing for a revolution. However, in Western Europe, specifically in [[Italy]], capitalism had succeeded in exercising '
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• Tao Te Ching
  ..., and 德 dé "[[virtue]]," Chapter 38, plus 經 jīng "classic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, ...pread widely outside East Asia, aided by hundreds of [[translations]] into Western [[languages]].
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