| It is in the Mahabharata that we get the syncretic picture of lokasamgraha through the concepts of caturvarnashrama dharma and moksha. |
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| Actually, this is a whole lot like what I just described in terms of cognitive dissonance and syncretic religions. |
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| The Vietnamese people adhere to a syncretic religious tradition that is a mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. |
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| Venezuelans' fascination with such things has a foundation in spiritism, sorcery, and syncretic faiths. |
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| The result is a further syncretization of an already syncretic form, but one which is capable of having strong musical, political, and cultural resonances in Aotearoa. |
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| Hermetic magic is syncretic and includes elements of early Egyptian, Greek and Hebrew occultism, neo-Platonism, agnosticism, kabala, alchemy and Rosicrucianism. |
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| Santería, a syncretic Afro-Cuban religion, has more adherents. |
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| Essential here is that the final result isn't only a linguistic, but a generally cultural and also frequently ethnic synthesis that has led to completely new syncretic forms of life. |
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| The principal progenitor of juju was palm-wine music, a syncretic genre that arose in the drinking establishments of the culturally diverse port cities of West Africa in the early decades of the 20th century. |
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| They all want a new downtown in Beirut, one that is less sterile, les conspicuous, less elitist, more human, more syncretic, denser in terms of politics, meetings, cultural crossroads, dialogue and intermingling. |
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| I also believe that painting, especially abstraction, requires the casting aside of rational thought in favor of syncretic vision, possessing an architecture not unlike the contrapuntal music Gould favored above all else. |
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| Finally, the content of certain aspects is syncretic and characterised by the absence or inadequate nature of any recognised scientific validation. |
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| For these young people, the syncretic black identity is much more expressive of their sense of sharing a common experience and destiny and helps them express identity, opposition and historicity. |
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| In the light of recent historical research, this project aimed to develop a new interpretation of such monuments and to underline that they are the result of a shared syncretic culture and architecture over many centuries. |
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| Imagine' arose from an eclectic and syncretic process, from combining a series of ideas, methods and experiences, from both the Anglophone and the Francophone communities. |
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| It is probably the only surviving representation of Mani, the founder of Manicheism, a syncretic religion which combined elements from Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Nestorianism and Gnostic traditions. |
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| They have some syncretic mixture of rituals: they polish menorahs or decorate Christmas trees, meditate upon the great beyond, say a silent prayer, light candles to the darkness. |
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| A uniquely syncretic and tolerant culture evolved with Sufism and spiritual ingress. |
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| Through the collapsing of the three dances, all these things ricochet against each other to create a new syncretic culture. |
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| These intermarriages spawned a syncretic culture, including distinctive languages, called Mitchif, or Métchif, as well as clothing, food, and music. |
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| Although his equation of the several manifestations of God was syncretic, he won many followers from sects and denominations that repudiated syncretism, and he encouraged those followers to be strong in their original faiths. |
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| It has syncretic forms in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular of the present subjunctive, and in the 1st and 2nd person singular of the imperfect subjunctive. |
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| Though silk was certainly the major trade item exported from China, many other goods were traded, as well as religions, syncretic philosophies, and various technologies. |
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| They decided to work with dignitaries from Minh Ly Dao, which is a sect of Cao Dai, a syncretic belief system founded in early-20th-century Vietnam. |
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| National Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Policy 2015 will provide a more holistic, comprehensive and syncretic framework of the various issues related with this sector. |
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| John Koval, director, network services, Syncretic Software, Inc. |
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