anti-modernism
Opposing contemporary change
Anti-modernism is opposition to modern developments in society, culture, art, or religion.
The term appears in discussions of religious conservatives rejecting secular liberalism, artists resisting abstraction, or communities preserving traditional ways against industrialization and technological change: His anti-modernism extended to refusing email.
The stance may be principled or nostalgic, reactionary or radical.
Adherence to inherited customs
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- folk revivalTraditional music movement resurgence
heritage · craftsmanship · artisanal · handmade · pastoral · agrarianism · localism · authenticity
Anti-progress political stance
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- monarchismAdvocacy for royal sovereignty
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
corporatism · anti-democracy · restoration · aristocracy · paternalism · nationalism · blood and soil · paleoconservatism
Doctrine of fixed natures
- anti-rationalismOpposition to reason-based thinking
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- organicismUnified living systems theory
- historicismEra determines truth claims
communitarianism · counter-revolutionary · natural law · teleology · transcendence · Heidegger · Nietzsche · alienation
Strict adherence to core tenets
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
- sacred traditionVenerated inherited practice
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
Amish · Wahhabism · Salafism · Hasidic · evangelical · creationism · theocracy · papal authority
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
- figurativeRepresenting through imagery
- representationalDepicting recognizable subjects
- ornamentThing that beautifies
- beaux-artsVisual arts for beauty
historicism · eclecticism · beauty · harmony · proportion · craftsmanship · patronage · salon
traditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
- conservatismPreference for existing institutions
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
folk revival · heritage · craftsmanship · artisanal · handmade · pastoral · agrarianism · localism · authenticity · vernacular
reactionary
Anti-progress political stance
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- monarchismAdvocacy for royal sovereignty
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
fascism · corporatism · anti-democracy · restoration · aristocracy · paternalism · nationalism · blood and soil · paleoconservatism · anti-globalism
essentialism
Doctrine of fixed natures
- anti-rationalismOpposition to reason-based thinking
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- organicismUnified living systems theory
historicism · communitarianism · counter-revolutionary · natural law · teleology · transcendence · Heidegger · Nietzsche · alienation · disenchantment
fundamentalism
Strict adherence to core tenets
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
- sacred traditionVenerated inherited practice
ecclesiastical · Amish · Wahhabism · Salafism · Hasidic · evangelical · creationism · theocracy · papal authority · Latin Mass
neoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
- figurativeRepresenting through imagery
- representationalDepicting recognizable subjects
- ornamentThing that beautifies
beaux-arts · historicism · eclecticism · beauty · harmony · proportion · craftsmanship · patronage · salon · realism
- fundamentalismfundamentalism, inerrancy, literalism, dogmatism, strict interpretation
- Traditional CatholicismTridentine Mass, Latin Mass, communion rail, Latin prayers, mantilla
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, anti-technology
- papacypontiff, Pope, pope, Holy See, papal election
- IslamismIslamism, Salafism, jihadism, Wahhabism, Muslim Brotherhood
- primitivismprimitivism, tribal art, indigenous art, naive art, outsider art
anti-modernismmodernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
progressivism · modernity · progressiveness · forward-thinking · modernization
anti-modernismmodernism
Favoring contemporary approaches
futurism · experimentalism · constructivism · Bauhaus · avant-garde
anti-modernismfuturism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
progressivism · innovation · neophilia · utopianism · accelerationism