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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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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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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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Minimizing Religious Syncretism among the Chols

Practical Anthropology, 1959
Syncretism is the tendency for new culture patterns to be combined and intermingled with existing patterns when they are adopted into a society. In one sense syncretism is an inevitable characteristic of any profound culture change, because change does not take place in a vacuum, but is developed on, or out from, or in contrast to an existing way of ...
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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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RELIGIOUS SIMULACRUM – DANGER SYNCRETIC THINKING

Філософські обрії, 2019
Автор виходить с твердження, що епоха модерну призвела до ерозії релігійної культури, але сучасне постмодерне мислення закладає більш небезпечну основу сучасних суспільних конфліктів на основі релігійних симулякрів. Доведено, що їх причиною є синкретичне мислення, як прояв відсутності філософсько-теологічної культури.
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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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Religious Syncretism

2002
Tomasi, Luigi, K. Dobbelaere, K. Voyè
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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997
Simon Coleman, Charles Stewart, Rosalind Shaw   +2 more
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