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    Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm, ˈsɪn-/) is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation...
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  • Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition...
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  • distinction ever existed. The term syncretism is often used when a fairly regular pattern can be observed across a paradigm. Syncretism is a specific form of linguistic...
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    ("Mercury the Teetotaler"), a syncretism of Mercury with a Carthaginian god of commerce. Mercurius Visucius, a syncretism of the Celtic god Visucius with...
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    The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the first-century, spread geographically...
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  • political spectrum. The idea of syncretic politics has been influenced by syncretism and syncretic religion. The main idea of syncretic politics is that taking...
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  • had a fear of syncretism, which was carried on by current African Christian leadership in an attempt to keep Christianity "pure." Syncretism in Africa is...
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    United States. In Latin America, Yoruba religion has been in intense Syncretism with Christianity, Indigenous religions and Spiritism since the first...
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    juxtaposition in various fields from syncretism, arguing that "juxtaposition and syncretism are in antithesis, syncretism being the predominance of the whole...
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  • Moral syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory moral beliefs, often while melding the ethical practices of various schools...
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    Vodun priest (vodunon). The syncretism of Vodun and Christianity arose just like Vodun itself in Benin, but similar syncretisms also arose overseas, when...
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  • obtains in today's India, the espousal of the subcontinent's entrenched syncretism is a noteworthy thematic strand that should not be lost in the hypnotic...
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    February 3, 2024. Retrieved January 19, 2021. Schumacher, John N. (1984). "Syncretism in Philippine Catholicism: Its Historical Causes". Philippine Studies...
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    remarkable. There is often a syncretism between shamanism and Catholic traditions. Another religion of popular syncretism in Mexico (especially in recent...
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  • Syncretism or the Mixed School (Chinese: 雜家; pinyin: zájiā) in Chinese philosophy is an eclectic school of thought that combined elements of Confucianism...
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    Social Darwinism Social interventionism Social order State capitalism Syncretism Totalitarianism Gleichschaltung Volksgemeinschaft Volkskörper Politicians...
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  • Philippines and the precursor of contemporary Aesthetic Syncretism. His work is associated with the Syncretism art movement in the Philippines and abroad. Veneracion...
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    The culture of Rajasthan includes many artistic traditions that reflect the ancient Indian way of life. Rajasthan is also called the "Land of Kings". It...
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    supplanted the name of his female counterpart, but, due to extensive syncretism with Inanna, the deity remained as female, although her name was in the...
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    parts of Africa where Islam and Christianity are dominant, religious syncretism with the traditional African religions is common. A 2012 report on religion...
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    Atargatis (known as Derceto by the Greeks) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but,...
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    This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Buddha (Sanskrit:...
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    interventionism Social order State capitalism Statolatry Supercapitalism Syncretism Third Position Totalitarianism Topics Definitions Economics Fascism and...
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    Caelus or Coelus (/ˈsiːləs/; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the...
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  • Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century;...
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    Hellenistic period, Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion and syncretism that his conquests engendered, such as Greco-Buddhism and Hellenistic...
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    The modern Medicine Wheel symbol was invented as a teaching tool in about 1972 by Charles Storm, aka Arthur C. Storm, writing under the name Hyemeyohsts...
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  • This is a list of female mystics. Táhirih Bahíyyih Khánum Ásíyih Khánum Alexandra David-Néel author of books on Tibetan Mysticism Yeshe Tsogyal 8th century...
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    Jean-François Thiriart (22 March 1922, Brussels – 23 November 1992), often known as Jean Thiriart, was a Belgian far-right political theorist. Coming from...
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    religion Religious pluralism Religious syncretism Separation of church and state Spiritual but not religious Syncretism Toleration Universalism Persons Eknath...
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