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Representation: Mental Representation

Representation: Political Representation

Republicanism: Republic

Resistance

Resistance and Accommodation

Responsibility

Ritual: Public Ritual

Ritual: Religion

Romanticism in Literature and Politics

Sacred and Profane

Sacred Places

Science, History of

Science Fiction

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Scientific Revolution

Sexuality: Overview

Sexuality: Sexual Orientation

Shinto

Slavery

Social History, U.S.

Sophists, The

Sport

Subjectivism

Superstition

Surrealism

Symbolism

Syncretism

Taste

Terror

Text/Textuality

Theater and Performance

Theodicy

Third Cinema

Third World Literature

Toleration

Totalitarianism

Totems

Trade

Tragedy and Comedy

Treaty

Untouchability: Menstrual Taboos

Utilitarianism

Utopia

Victorianism

Virtual Reality

Visual Culture

Visual Order to Organizing Collections

Volunteerism, U.S.

War

War and Peace in the Arts

Westernization: Southeast Asia

Witchcraft

Witchcraft, African Studies of

Women and Femininity in U.S. Popular Culture

Women’s History: Africa

World Systems Theory, Latin America

Yin and Yang

PRACTICES

Most of the entries in the NDHI discuss how specific societies

habituated people to specific ideas. This selective list includes the

entries on schools of thought and practice, religions, and political

movements, as well as the entries on distinctive practices.

Abolitionism

Afropessimism

Agnosticism

Alchemy: China

Alchemy: Europe and the Middle East

Anarchism

Ancestor Worship

Animism

Anticolonialism: Africa

Anticolonialism: Latin America

Anticolonialism: Middle East

Anticolonialism: Southeast Asia

Anticommunism: Latin America

Antifeminism

Anti-Semitism: Overview

Anti-Semitism: Islamic Anti-Semitism

Apartheid

Aristotelianism

Asceticism: Hindu and Buddhist Asceticism

Asceticism: Western Asceticism

Astrology: Overview

Astrology: China

Atheism

Avant-Garde: Militancy

Behaviorism

Black Consciousness

Buddhism

Bureaucracy

Bushido

Cannibalism

Capitalism: Overview

Capitalism: Africa

Cartesianism

Character

Chicano Movement

Chinese Thought

Christianity: Overview

Christianity: Asia

Cinema

Citizenship: Naturalization

Civil Disobedience

Classicism

Classification of Arts and Sciences, Early Modern

Colonialism: Africa

Colonialism: Latin America

Colonialism: Southeast Asia

Communication of Ideas: Orality and Advent of Writing

Communism: Europe

Communism: Latin America

Communitarianism in African Thought

Computer Science

Confucianism

Conservatism

Constitutionalism

Cosmopolitanism

Creationism

Critical Theory

Cultural Capital

Cultural Studies

Cynicism

Dance

Daoism

Deism

Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic

Dialogue and Dialectics: Talmudic

Discrimination

Diversity

Eclecticism

Ecumenism

Empire and Imperialism: Overview

Empire and Imperialism: Americas

Empire and Imperialism: Asia

Empire and Imperialism: Europe

Empire and Imperialism: Middle East

Empire and Imperialism: United States

Empiricism

Epicureanism

Equality: Overview

Etiquette

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Eugenics

Everyday Life

Existentialism

Extirpation

Fascism

Fatalism

Feminism: Overview

Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora

Feminism: Chicana Feminisms

Feminism: Islamic Feminism

Feminism: Third World U.S. Movement

Fetishism: Overview

Feudalism, European

Game Theory

Genocide

Ghetto

Gift, The

Gnosticism

Health and Disease

Hegelianism

Hinduism

Humanism: Renaissance

Humanism: Secular Humanism in the United States

Human Rights: Overview

Human Rights: Women’s Rights

Interpretation

Islam: Africa

Islam: Shii

Islam: Southeast Asia

Islam: Sunni

Jainism

Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Thought

Jihad

Judaism: Judaism to 1800

Judaism: Modern Judaism

Kantianism

Law

Leadership

Legalism, Ancient China

Liberalism

Liberation Theology

Machiavellism

Magic

Manichaeism

Maoism

Marxism: Overview

Marxism: Asia

Marxism: Latin America

Masks

Mechanical Philosophy

Medicine: China

Medicine: Europe and the United States

Medicine: India

Medicine: Islamic Medicine

Migration: Migration in World History

Monarchy: Overview

Monasticism

Multiculturalism, Africa

Museums

Music, Anthropology of

Musical Performance and Audiences

Musicology

Myth

Nationalism: Overview

Nationalism: Africa

Nationalism: Cultural Nationalism

Nationalism: Middle East

Neoplatonism

Nihilism

Nomadism

Nonviolence

Orthodoxy

Orthopraxy: Asia

Orthopraxy: Western Orthopraxy

Pacifism

Pan-Africanism

Pan-Arabism

Pan-Asianism

Pan-Islamism

Pan-Turkism

Paradigm

Phrenology

Physics

Platonism

Political Protest, U.S.

Polytheism

Population

Populism: Latin America

Positivism

Practices

Pragmatism

Pseudoscience

Psychoanalysis

Psychology and Psychiatry

Public Sphere

Punishment

Race and Racism: Asia

Race and Racism: Europe

Race and Racism: United States

Radicals/Radicalism

Rational Choice

Reading

Realism: Africa

Reflexivity

Reform: Europe and the United States

Relativism

Religion: Overview

Religion: Africa

Religion: African Diaspora

Religion: East and Southeast Asia

Religion: Indigenous Peoples’ View, South America

Religion: Latin America

Religion: Middle East

Republicanism: Latin America

Republicanism: Republic

Resistance

Resistance and Accommodation

Responsibility

Revolution

Ritual: Public Ritual

Ritual: Religion

Romanticism in Literature and Politics

Sacred and Profane

Scholasticism

Science: Overview

Scientific Revolution

Secularization and Secularism

Segregation

Skepticism

Slavery

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Socialism

Socialisms, African

Sophists, The

Sport

Stoicism

Subjectivism

Suicide

Superstition

Symbolism

Syncretism

Temperance

Terror

Theater and Performance

Time: Traditional and Utilitarian

Totalitarianism

Totems

Trade

Tradition

Tragedy and Comedy

Tribalism, Middle East

Untouchability: Overview

Untouchability: Menstrual Taboos

Untouchability: Taboos

Utilitarianism

Visual Order to Organizing Collections

Volunteerism, U.S.

Westernization: Africa

Westernization: Middle East

Westernization: Southeast Asia

Witchcraft

Witchcraft, African Studies of

Work

Yoga

Zionism

TEXTUAL

Every entry in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas used

texts. The following is a list of entries that focused mainly on the

history of a succession of texts. Each academic discipline has a

succession of major authors with whom later practitioners of the

discipline build upon and respond to creatively. The historian of

a discipline—such as the history of political philosophy, literary

history, or the history of science—considers the responses of

thinkers and practitioners of a discipline to the major earlier texts

in the discipline. In tracing the origin, development, and transformation

of an idea, the historian of ideas considers thinkers’ responses

to texts from a variety of disciplines.

Agnosticism

Alchemy: Europe and the Middle East

Algebras

Altruism

America

Analytical Philosophy

Aristotelianism

Asceticism: Hindu and Buddhist Asceticism

Autobiography

Autonomy

Biography

Bureaucracy

Capitalism: Overview

Cartesianism

Casuistry

Causality

Censorship

Change

Chinese Thought

Civil Disobedience

Class

Communitarianism in African Thought

Conservatism

Continental Philosophy

Cosmology: Cosmology and Astronomy

Creolization, Caribbean

Crisis

Cycles

Death and Afterlife, Islamic Understanding of

Deism

Dialogue and Dialectics: Socratic

Dialogue and Dialectics: Talmudic

Eclecticism

Encyclopedism

Epistemology: Ancient

Epistemology: Early Modern

Equality: Gender Equality

Eschatology

Essentialism

Existentialism

Experiment

Falsifiability

Fatalism

Fetishism: Fetishism in Literature and Cultural Studies

Form, Metaphysical, in Ancient and Medieval Thought

Free Will, Determinism, and Predestination

General Will

Generation

Genius

Genre

Geometry

Gift, The

Globalization: Asia

Gnosticism

Good

Greek Science

Happiness and Pleasure in European Thought

Heaven and Hell

Hegelianism

Hermeneutics

Hierarchy and Order

Hinduism

Historical and Dialectical Materialism

Historicism

Historiography

History, Idea of

Humanism: Africa

Humanism: Chinese Conception of

Humanism: Renaissance

Humanity: Asian Thought

Human Rights: Overview

Idealism

Ideas, History of

Identity, Multiple: Overview

Identity: Identity of Persons

Imagination

Immortality and the Afterlife

Individualism

Intelligentsia

Jouissance

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Judaism: Judaism to 1800

Justice: Overview

Justice: Justice in American Thought

Justice: Justice in East Asian Thought

Kantianism

Knowledge

Language, Philosophy of: Ancient and Medieval

Language, Philosophy of: Modern

Legalism, Ancient China

Liberalism

Liberty

Literature: African Literature

Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought

Mechanical Philosophy

Medicine: China

Metaphor

Metaphysics: Ancient and Medieval

Metaphysics: Renaissance to the Present

Microcosm and Macrocosm

Mind

Modernity: East Asia

Mohism

Moral Sense

Motif: Motif in Literature

Mysticism: Chinese Mysticism

Mysticism: Christian Mysticism

Mysticism: Kabbalah

Natural Law

Natural Theology

Naturalism

Naturphilosophie

Negritude

Neocolonialism

New Criticism

Nihilism

Organicism

Orientalism: Overview

Orthopraxy: Western Orthopraxy

Paradigm

Phenomenology

Philosophies: African

Philosophies: Islamic

Philosophy: Historical Overview and Recent Developments

Philosophy, History of

Philosophy, Moral: Ancient

Philosophy, Moral: Medieval and Renaissance

Philosophy, Moral: Modern

Philosophy and Religion in Western Thought

Philosophy of Mind: Ancient and Medieval

Philosophy of Religion

Pietism

Platonism

Poetry and Poetics

Political, The

Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Practices

Pragmatism

Prehistory, Rise of

Progress, Idea of

Psychoanalysis

Queer Theory

Race and Racism: Overview

Rationalism

Reading

Realism: Africa

Reflexivity

Relativity

Religion: Overview

Representation: Political Representation

Republicanism: Republic

Romanticism in Literature and Politics

Sacred Texts: Asia

Science: East Asia

Science, History of

Science Fiction

Social Capital

Social Contract

State of Nature

Stoicism

Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Overview

Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Anthropology

Taste

Text/Textuality

Toleration

Treaty

Truth

Universalism

Utopia

Virtue Ethics

Wealth

World Systems Theory, Latin America

GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

Global Entries

EXEMPLARY GLOBAL ENTRIES

Anthropology

Atheism

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Black Atlantic

Christianity: Overview

Communication of Ideas: Orality and the Advent of

Writing

Constitutionalism

Critical Theory

Dance

Environmental History

Eurocentrism

Feminism: Overview

Fundamentalism

Garden

Historiography

History, Economic

Humanity in the Arts

Identity, Multiple: Jewish Multiple Identity

International Order

Islam: Shii

Islam: Sunni

Life Cycle: Elders/Old Age

Magic

Maps and the Ideas They Express

Marxism: Overview

Mathematics

Migration: Africa

Migration: Migration in World History

Migration: United States

Monasticism

Music, Anthropology of

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Musical Performance and Audiences

Nuclear Age

Pan-Africanism

Peasants and Peasantry

Person, Idea of the

Polytheism

Postcolonial Theory and Literature

Property

Protest, Political

Religion and the State: Africa

Resistance and Accommodation

Ritual: Religion

Sacred Places

Secularization and Secularism

Slavery

Sovereignty

Superstition

Syncretism

Temperance

Third Cinema

Third World Literature

Tradition

Treaty

Witchcraft

Women’s Studies

ENTRIES ON AT LEAST THREE GEOGRAPHIC

AREAS OR A GLOBAL TOPIC

Abolitionism

Aesthetics: Africa

Africa, Idea of

Alchemy: China

Alienation

Animism

Anthropology

Anticolonialism: Africa

Anticolonialism: Latin America

Anticolonialism: Southeast Asia

Antifeminism

Architecture: Overview

Arts: Overview

Arts: Africa

Asceticism: Hindu and Buddhist Asceticism

Astrology: Overview

Atheism

Authoritarianism: Overview

Authority

Autobiography

Barbarism and Civilization

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Bioethics

Biography

Black Atlantic

Body, The

Borders, Borderlands, and Frontiers, Global

Buddhism

Calculation and Computation

Calendar

Cannibalism

Capitalism: Overview

Capitalism: Africa

Censorship

Childhood and Child Rearing

Cinema

Citizenship: Overview

City, The: The City as a Cultural Center

Civil Disobedience

Civil Society: Europe and the United States

Colonialism: Africa

Colonialism: Southeast Asia

Communication of Ideas: Africa and Its Influence

Communication of Ideas: Middle East and Abroad

Communication of Ideas: Orality and the Advent of

Writing

Computer Science

Consciousness: Overview

Corruption in Developed and Developing Countries

Cosmology: Asia

Cosmopolitanism

Creativity in the Arts and Sciences

Creolization, Caribbean

Critical Theory

Cultural Capital

Cultural Studies

Dance

Death

Deism

Democracy

Demography