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Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes.: Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism [PDF]

, 2015
The book by Magdalena Lubanska examines the role of religious syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes.
Magdalena Lubańska
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Syncretism and Religious Change

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1968
A superficial view of what happens when a large number of people forsake their former religion for a new one is that some of the old beliefs become mixed with the new. It is a commonplace to hear that folk Catholicism is mixed with pagan survivals, or that newly converted African Christians are “not real Christians” or “have a veneer of Christianity ...
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Magic And Syncretic Religious Culture In The East

Late Antique Archaeology, 2010
This paper presents a general introduction to magic and syncretic religious culture in the Eastern Roman empire in Late Antiquity. Examples of magical rituals, texts and the materials used in the rites are presented. Imperial edicts against pagan religions and magic rituals in the 4th and early 5th c.
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Method in the Study of Religious Syncretism

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1941
T HAT WE must interpret the texts, concepts and institutions of Biblical religion in the light of the religious life and thought contemporary with them is something to which, I take it, we all agree. Our feeling of inner compulsion in the matter is based upon the conviction that the re-ligious aspects of human life and its expression are subject to the
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Notes on the Yezidi Religious Syncretism

Iran and the Caucasus, 2004
Despite its unique and the extremely original character, Yezidism reveals a number of striking parallels with other syncretic religions, in particular, with the heterodox Shi'a sects. A part of these parallels are certainly the common elements, derived from the Islamic Mysticism and, probably, Gnostic teachings (for some Extreme Shi'a doctrines, like ...
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Religious Identities: Syncretic and Inclusive

2013
Religion is a key identity marker not least because almost every tribe or village that has been visited by anthropologists has testified to the fact that religious beliefs and behaviors stand at the core of every civilization. According to Reid (1993: 5) over a thousand faiths based on sacred scripture took hold in Southeast Asia, which eventually led ...
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Syncretism and Religious Controversy in Babylonia

Altorientalische Forschungen, 1997
Publication d'une tablette cuneiforme mettant en lumiere les manipulations theologiques lies aux conflits religieux et le syncretisme religieux en vigueur a Babylone, de l'epoque de la dynastie kassite (v. 1500 av. J.-C.) jusqu'au regne de Nabonide (v. 500 av. J.-C.)
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Kongo in Haiti: A New Approach to Religious Syncretism

Man, 1989
Analyse structurale et historique des principaux apports de cultes d'origines africaines dans le Vaudou haitien dont le syncretisme chretien reste superficiel. Il s'agit d'une part du culte rada qui se rapporte aux divinites des Fon de l'ancien Dahomey (Benin) et d'autre part du culte petro issu de la religion des Kongo du Bas ...
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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997
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Religious Syncretism and Undergraduate Biblical Courses

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1941
with no means of descending to the earth except a length of rope, which he proceeded to tie around one of the horns of the moon; he slid down to the end of the rope, but the earth was still a long way beneath him. He was in a difficult position, but had a flash of genius.
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