anti-traditionalism
Opposition to customs
Anti-traditionalism is opposition to established customs, practices, or inherited ways of doing things.
The term describes movements, attitudes, or philosophies that reject tradition as a basis for authority or decision-making: The architect's anti-traditionalism showed in her refusal to use historical forms.
It often implies favoring innovation, progress, or rational evaluation over received wisdom.
Attacking revered traditions
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
- revisionismReexamining established doctrine
radicalism · reformism · heterodoxy · freethinking · avant-garde · counterculture · dissent · unorthodoxy
Separation of faith, state
- atheismRejection of deities
- agnosticismDoubt about divine existence
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
apostasy · freethinking · rationalism · humanism · deism · anticlericalism · skepticism · irreligion
Innovative cultural pioneers
- futurismStudy of tomorrow's possibilities
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
postmodernism · expressionism · abstraction · deconstruction · experimentalism · minimalism · conceptualism · brutalism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- reformismGradual political change doctrine
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
republicanism · democratization · egalitarianism · feminism · abolitionism · socialism · anarchism · anticlericalism
Religion losing social significance
- westernizationAdopting Euro-American practices
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- cosmopolitanismBelief in shared humanity
- multiculturalismCoexistence of diverse traditions
assimilation · modernity · liberalization · urbanization · individualism · pluralism · syncretism · hybridization
iconoclasm
Attacking revered traditions
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- nonconformityRejection of prevailing norms
revisionism · radicalism · reformism · heterodoxy · freethinking · avant-garde · counterculture · dissent · unorthodoxy · subversion
secularism
Separation of faith, state
- atheismRejection of deities
- agnosticismDoubt about divine existence
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
heresy · apostasy · freethinking · rationalism · humanism · deism · anticlericalism · skepticism · irreligion · iconoclasm
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- futurismStudy of tomorrow's possibilities
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
modernism · postmodernism · expressionism · abstraction · deconstruction · experimentalism · minimalism · conceptualism · brutalism · constructivism
progressivism
Philosophy advocating societal reform
- reformismGradual political change doctrine
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
secularism · republicanism · democratization · egalitarianism · feminism · abolitionism · socialism · anarchism · anticlericalism · activism
secularization
Religion losing social significance
- westernizationAdopting Euro-American practices
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- cosmopolitanismBelief in shared humanity
multiculturalism · assimilation · modernity · liberalization · urbanization · individualism · pluralism · syncretism · hybridization · decolonization
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Adherence to inherited customs
conservatism · conventionalism · orthodoxy · classicism · heritage preservation
anti-traditionalismconservatism
Preference for existing institutions
preservationism · reactionism · reaction · paleoconservatism · continuity
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