Western tradition can refer to:
- Western culture
- Western mystery tradition
- The Western Tradition, a 1989 television series of lectures by Eugen Weber
- American Tradition Partnership, a political organization also known as Western Tradition Partnership
- Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Attorney General of Montana, a United States Supreme Court case regarding campaign finance
Famous quotes containing the words western and/or tradition:
“It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)