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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | Western society is often considered as tracing its cultural origins to both Greek thought and Christian religion, thus following an evolution that began in ancient Greece, continued through the Roman Empire and, with the coming of Christianity (which has its origins in the Middle East), spread throughout Europe. | | | In this prophecy, the West is definited based on religion, as the countries of western and central Europe historically influenced by two forms of Western Christianity, namely Catholicism and Protestantism, together with the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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| | Definition of Western culture |
| | Western Culture began to expand once more (for example, the practice of mathematics was greatly improved upon when Leonardo of Pisa introduced the Arabic or decimal system with his book, Liber Abaci), although it took several centuries to rediscover much of the lost culture of the ancient world. | | | Western culture further expanded in the 20th century with the rise of mass media thanks to largely Western inventions such as motion pictures, radio and television. | | | Furthermore, Western Culture has been influenced by two general strains within Hellenic culture: the Ionian (which is exemplified by Athens and her democracy), and the Dorian (which is represented by Sparta and her dual monarchy/classical republic). |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. | | | At the same time, Roman rule in the western half crumbled under pressures from outside the empire and was slowly rebuilt, but the culture divided between three sources of power, the Pope, the French and slightly to the Emperor. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Western thought is often related to the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture. |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | The term Western is usually associated with the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. | | | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. | | | The term Western is usually associated with the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | The term Western is usually associated with the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. |
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| | Western Orthodoxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the Western Rite Orthodox the situation differs, in that their communities are all under the local Byzantine rite Orthodox bishops, and they share Orthodox theology though they retain the rituals, culture, language, ethos and ornaments of Western civilization. | | | Western Orthodoxy is a strand of Orthodox Christian worship adapted for congregations in traditionally Catholic or Protestant countries. | | | Practices differ with Orthodoxy in that these independent churches often have a married episcopate, sometimes women are ordained to the priesthood or diaconate, or other irregularities both in theology, praxis, and ecclesiology not accepted by the Eastern Orthodox churches. |
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| | Culture Wars |
| | The theory is to criticize every institution, every traditional belief in Western culture (family, religion, education), and to criticize them in the most destructive way possible and to do so unremittingly. | | | Feminism joins with the Frankfurt School in saying that Western culture is automatically alienating and repressive of women. | | | Architecture and all of the arts must be alienating to be true to the state of alienation which exists under Western culture. |
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| | Korea's Positive Acceptance of Western Thought and the Christian Movement |
| | The Protestant church has replanted modern Western culture on Korean soil through its numerous schools and medical facilities, but it is the Catholic church, providing service with an attitude of silent obedience to God, that has provided a spiritual model fully embraced by the Korean people. | | | Those who held this open attitude towards reform can be divided into two camps: those who accepted Western culture through faith in Christianity and those who wanted to appropriate secular thought and institutions from the West. | | | In the past two centuries of miraculous development, the Korean Catholic church has brought to Korean society the gist of Western spiritual culture developed from the Middle Ages to the present. |
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| | Eastern philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Another common thread that often differentiates Eastern philosophy from Western is the belief regarding the relationship between God or the gods and the universe. | | | Eastern philosophies are typically overlooked, but increased connections between "East and West" in recent years have served to bridge the culture gap by a large degree. | | | Although some Eastern traditions have supernatural spiritual beings and even powerful gods, these are generally not seen as separate from the universe, but rather as a part of the universe. |
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| | American Conservative Union Foundation |
| | Independently, two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, came to the same answer: Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interest that Communism was impossible in the West until both could be destroyed. | | | Its goal remains what Lukacs and Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion. | | | He knew that if he could destroy the West's traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying Western culture itself. |
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| | The Change of Values in the Western World |
| | I am referring above all to that particular shaping of the Western world by the "Old Testament," by Abraham's exodus and covenant, by the God of Israel, and by the visions of the prophets. | | | Modernity and the Western world must come to terms with their crises of values on their own. | | | The inspiration of the Western world by biblical traditions extends even into the fundamental notions and values of modernity; the Western world has rediscovered its own history of freedom in the biblical story of God, and has identified with that story even in secular figures. |
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| | 8.2.r_zhang |
| | What Chow tries to show in Part 2 is that Chinese culture, which has been aggrandized by the powerful cinematic apparatus, does not merely appeal to the Western gaze, but more important, it also challenges, questions, and displaces the gaze. | | | The chapters that follow the story of Lu Xun are devoted to the issue of "primitive passions" in Chinese cinema and culture. | | | Chow's discussion of primitive passions, reinforced by her frequent references to postcolonial theory, provides a new perspective upon twentieth-century Chinese culture which, in Chow's opinion, is "caught between the forces of 'first world' imperialism and 'third world' nationalism" (23), and which demands reconsideration of the paradoxical relation between China and the West. |
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| | Barbelith Underground > Temple > Welcome to the counter culture |
| | The decision to not spend your saturday evening as a passive spectator of celebrity big brother, or whatever, and engage with some form of empowering magical practice instead could well be considered "counter cultural", in that it's behaviour that runs counter to a lot of the lifestyle messages we receive within mainstream western culture. | | | As I understand it, the purpose of counter culture should be to actively subvert mainstream culture along more positive and individually empowering lines. | | | And, while many Western Mystery Trad or Kaos Magickians do little more than write/argue about or dabble in magic(k), the Palero who lives down the street from you (the one with the Bush/Cheney sticker on his SUV) is doing it. |
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| | About the Great Western Vehicle |
| | The Great Western Vehicle is a 4th Wheel Buddhist tradition that seeks to teach Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practices within the context of any culture or religious tradition. | | | Western Buddhism needs a canon of Buddhist literature, therefore we embrace the Pali canon in English translation as the foundation of the Western canon of Buddhist literature. | | | We are not interested in Buddhism as a religion, but as a philosophy and practice strategy (dharma) that any one can follow to enlightenment, regardless of their cultural or religious background. |
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| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | The term Western is usually associated with the cultural tradition that traces its origins to Greek thought and Christian religion. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Alternative culture |
| | Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. | | | See: History of subcultures in the 20th century | | | Alternative culture is a catch-all phrase used predominately by the media and the marketing industry to refer to a variety of separate sub-culturesâ (which are either loosely related or near-totally unrelated) â and are perceived by the general public as being outside or on the edge of so-called accepted mainstream culture. |
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| | Crimes of Honor and Shame |
| | In traditional societies crimes of honor were accepted and justified by communities; they were viewed as a needed aspect of the honor culture. | | | In contrast to traditional societies where the type of patriarchy is what Scharabi (1988) calls neo-patriarchy, the responsibility of control in modern Western countries shifts from male members of a woman's biological family to her male intimate partner. | | | In fact, it is the combination of individualism, patriarchal societies and the privacy of the home, that Western feminists and those involved with the study of domestic violence have long argued kept the extent of such violence hidden in modern Western societies. |
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| | Boehm, Christian: Democracy in Kyrgyzstan - Reforms, Rhetorics and Realities |
| | I believe that Western aid has come to Kyrgyzstan to stay. | | | What interest does the Western world have in this remote country? | | | Kyrgyzstan, a small and mountainous state, bordering up to the Western China, was not one of the countries making headlines in the world press during the collapse of the USSR in 1991. |
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| | South India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | South of the Satpuras, at the center of the peninsula, is the Deccan plateau, defined by the Western Ghats mountain range, which runs along the western edge of the peninsula, and the Eastern Ghats along the eastern edge. | | | Culturally and linguistically South India is distinguished as the home of the Dravidians, but not exclusively so; ethnic Dravidians also live in parts of eastern and central India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, and some non-Dravidian peoples (for example the Konkani) also make their home in South India. | | | The South Indian weltanschauung is celebrated in the elaborate dance forms of South India, Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniaattam which literally translates as âthe dance of the enchantressâ. |
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| | Western Buddhism by Kulananda |
| | He also radically reassesses the ways in which the encounter between Buddhism and Western culture affects our lives on a religious, cultural, social and economic level. | | | Although deeply rooted in the ancient Buddhist tradition, the emerging Western Buddhism is nonetheless willing to consider its great heritage with a critical eye, to question traditional doctrines and methods and to ask how we can live out these teaching in our modern lives. | | | A Westerner himself, Kulananda presents some of the key ideas and methods by which he and his contemporaries now live. |
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| | Counterculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As criticism of the established social order became more widespread among the newly emergent youth class, new theories about culture and personal identity began to spread, and traditional non-Western ideas – particularly with regard to religion, social organization and spiritual enlightenment – were also embraced. | | | So, in the "youth culture" view of the phenomenon, every sort of outlook and political philosophy (and form of political apathy) except social conservatism might be expected to flourish: libertarianism, left-libertarianism, liberalism, socialism, anarchism, communism, materialism, mysticism, hedonism, spirituality, environmentalism, and many other basic orientations. | | | Generally, any content posted on a number of counterculture sites, like Udaff, Litprom or Fuck.ru is considered counterculture, although some of the stories there have nothing to do with all of the above apart from being counterculture-inspired. |
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| | Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Mediterranean and, according to the traditional geographic definition, by the Caucasus. | | | An arc of uplands also exists along the northwestern seaboard, beginning in the western British Isles and continuing along the mountainous, fjord-cut spine of Norway. | | | Geographically, Europe is the western portion of the larger landmass known as Eurasia. |
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| | Western Literature in a World Context |
| | We group key works of Western and world literature around a set of core stories, in order to allow teachers and students to compare how different culture treat similar themes and issues. | | | The World Context section that follows includes texts from outside the Western tradition--from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and native America. | | | Whenever possible, we have included non-Western texts that raise issues and themes relevant to those raised by the Western texts. |
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| | Western thought, ideals, aspirations - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | What modern liberalism excludes is the traditional Western culture itself, and "diversity" is simply the principal weapon by which it seeks to achieve it's goal. | | | Such a new 'umbrella' of Western thought may not win the election, but it may well provide the basis of survival beyond the immediate and apparent problems. | | | The sad thing is, egalitarianism and individualism have had a beneficent impact on Western civilization, as they have freed White men from the past constraints of the classical world and the Middle Ages, ushering achievements unrivaled by other races: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Declaration of Independence. |
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| | The Ayn Rand Institute: The Greatness of Western Civilization |
| | Western culture, claim the intellectuals, is in no way superior to that of African tribalists or Eskimo seal hunters. | | | Its core principles are under attack from every direction--by religious fanatics, by dictators and, most disgracefully, by Western intellectuals, who are denouncing reason in the name of skepticism, rights in the name of special entitlements, and progress in the name of environmentalism. | | | They assert that to deny the equality of all cultures is to be guilty of the most heinous of intellectual sins: "ethnocentrism." This is to flout the sacred principle of cultural relativism. |
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| | Culture Wars |
| | The theory is to criticize every institution, every traditional belief in Western culture (family, religion, education), and to criticize them in the most destructive way possible and to do so unremittingly. | | | Feminism joins with the Frankfurt School in saying that Western culture is automatically alienating and repressive of women. | | | Architecture and all of the arts must be alienating to be true to the state of alienation which exists under Western culture. |
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