American innovations in the arts Music appreciation ... The belief espoused by many romantic American thinkers that humans should reject tradition and authority and see themselves and the natural world as divine is called

A. rationalism. B. Buddhism. C. transcendentalism. D. romanticism.

It would be A. Rationalism

The belief espoused by many romantic American thinkers that humans should reject tradition and authority and see themselves and the natural world as divine is called D. romanticism. As a reaction on Industrial Revolution, this period is famous for its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and specifically nature. Most of the artist of this epoch prefered the medieval issues to the classical ones.