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Syncretism and Hybridization

, 2016
There exists a wide range of terms of religious mixture, featuring syncretism and hybridization most prominently, but also creolization, transculturation, and métissage.
Paul Christopher Johnson
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Religious Diversity and Multi‐Religiosity in Singapore

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can government‐mandated exposure to religious diversity both reinforce exclusive identities and cultivate “multi‐religiosity”? This study leverages the 2024 Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality to investigate how Singapore's state‐mandated and managed pluralism impacts the religious lives of its citizens.
Corey Resweber, Bing Han, Fenggang Yang
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau

, 2023
In this paper, I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social dimensions.
Eh, Edmond
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Ambiguous Boundaries of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Belonging in Japan: A Descriptive Analysis of Plural and Cultural Religiosity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note analyzes the ambiguous boundaries of religious identity, belief, and ritual behavior in Japan, drawing on data from a nationally representative postal survey conducted in 2024 (N = 3947). The findings reveal widespread participation in Buddhist and Shinto rituals even among individuals who identify as nonreligious or atheist,
Koki Shimizu, Yoshihide Sakurai
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Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social ...
Eh, Edmond
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Reconsidering Syncretism and Contextualization: The sangoma-Prophet Phenomenon in South African Neo-Prophetic Pentecostalism

Religions
The emergence of African Christianity from missionary tutelage towards the close of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century raised concerns of syncretism that only eased with arguments of contextualisation in the 1970s.
Thabang R. Mofokeng
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Synkretisme: En analyse af illegitime blandinger og tredje-identiteter

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2002
On the basis of the notion of syncretism this article discusses the issues of constructing new religious identities in the history of Christian mission.
Anita Maria Leopold
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Case syncretism

, 2020
Case syncretism is the combination of two or more morphosyntactic cases in a single morphological form. A four-part typology of case syncretism is given, with some patterns attributable to what was originally a functional motivation, while others appear ...
Baerman, Matthew
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Syncretism in Russian Fantasy

, 2023
“Syncretism in Russian Fantasy” brings to the attention of the Western reader a largely unknown corpus of extremely popular fantasy written in Russia in the transitional period during and after the collapse of the USSR, asking important questions about ...
Donatella Possamai
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