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Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as: carnival, festival, and public rituals; performance traditions of tale, epic, and other verbal forms; cultural evolutions in human relations (ideas, sciences, arts, techniques); and cultural expressions of social movements such as nationalism.
Traditional society has often been contrasted with modern industrial society, with figures like Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu stressing such polarities as community vs. society or mechanical vs. organic solidarity; [3] while Claude Lévi-Strauss saw traditional societies as 'cold' societies in that they refused to allow the historical process to define their social sense of legitimacy.
1881: Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society was formed by Charles Taze Russell, initiating the Bible Student movement. 1889: the Ahmadiyya Community was established. 1893: Swami Vivekananda's first speech at The Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, brought the ancient philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to culture: Culture – a set of patterns of human activity within a community or social group and the symbolic structures that give significance to such activity. Customs, laws, dress, architectural style, social standards, and traditions are all examples of cultural elements.
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Self-Realization Fellowship: 1893–1952 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: International Society for Krishna Consciousness: 1896–1977 Ruth Norman: Unarius: 1900–1993 Swami Muktananda: Siddha Yoga: 1908–1982 Paul Twitchell: Eckankar: 1908–1971 IkurÅ Teshima: Makuya: 1910–1973 L. Ron Hubbard ...
The Sexual revolution: A change in sexual morality and sexual behavior throughout the Western world, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. The Chinese Cultural Revolution : A struggle for power within the Chinese Communist Party , which grew to include large sections of Chinese society and eventually brought the People's Republic of China to the ...
The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions (1999) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.
List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time