Religious syncretism is manifest in almost every aspect of the majority of Javanese rites. |
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The marriage prohibition consequently played into the concern over intermarriage as a source of religious syncretism and idolatry. |
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In the current literature, instances of syncretism are being increasingly cited to support particular models of morphology and feature structure. |
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Inculturation always runs the risk of syncretism, in all cultures without exception. |
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But how does one avoid falling into a vague religious syncretism made up of different expressions of religion? |
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Perhaps we face a new kind of religious syncretism that combines digital fever with the worship of Creation. |
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The mural represents the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the religious syncretism there. |
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My sense is that one's attitude to syncretism depends largely on how one understands the dynamics of religion and human religiosity. |
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In these concluding remarks, I shall return to the various issues concerning religious syncretism, which introduced this article. |
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While often viewed as uniformly Pagan, there has been an increase in the diversity, expression, and syncretism of religious belief systems. |
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In addition, there is often a layer of syncretism between Buddhism and animism. |
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If multiculturalism means syncretism, then religious conservatives of all faiths will certainly opt out. |
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The result is a limited understanding of basic biblical truths, leading to corrupted theology, syncretism and shallow commitment. |
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These questions must be handled carefully, since accusations of syncretism often reflect and reinforce power imbalances between churches. |
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Speaking of which, in terms of religious syncretism it is interesting to see how frequently quantum uncertainty is starting to pop up in discussions about religion. |
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His dictionary hints at moments of cultural syncretism and dissonance, and, of course, varying degrees of onomatopoetic accuracy. |
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The pugnacity of the Koreans to survive as a nation may result from the Korean culture, syncretism of Buddhism, Confucianism and Shamanism. |
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There is certainly a return to religious fervour, but also with the risks of exoticism and syncretism. |
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They could very well become courses in religious syncretism and indifferentism undergirded by a philosophy of moral relativism. |
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For some of them ecumenism has become a negative term, equivalent to syncretism, doctrinal relativism and indifferentism. |
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There will also be a large exhibition on Brazil's religious syncretism, which melds various belief systems. |
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Here the musician extols a most inspired musical syncretism, with a strong fondness for the sounds of the black world. |
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With reference to the Passover Seder, it needs to be noted that syncretism is to be avoided. |
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Clearly, one cannot come closer to one another by eradicating boundaries and attempting some kind of syncretism. |
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Consequently there is need for constant vigilance against all possible forms of syncretism. |
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Migration has contributed, often most fruitfully, to syncretism and fusion. |
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The inter-religious dialogue is seen like a necessity, without loosing our own religious identity, avoiding syncretism and relativism. |
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Internet is both collection and syncretism, that is to say an unfinished puzzle or weird coalitions of ideas, beliefs and composites doctrines. |
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I am hard at work over here researching religious syncretism for an article that I want to write, and it has lead me on quite a wild goose chase around the internet. |
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I should also mention that I loathe religious syncretism in all its forms. |
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Concomitantly, there has been a shift from religion to spiritualisms manifested in a trend toward syncretism and the simultaneous identification with different traditions. |
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McNally's discussion of how non-Indian and Ojibwe missionaries worked to translate English-language hymns into Ojibwe is a perfect example of religious syncretism. |
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We seek to avoid the inauthenticity of syncretism. |
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Eric Lincoln, which means any religion's foundational, catechismal doctrine or dogma, syncretism is a nonfactor. |
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It is, moreover, undeniable, that the currents of which we are speaking were strongly affected by the syncretism into which the decadent hellenistic world was sinking. |
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This very often leads them to a syncretism that is difficult to remove. |
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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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They belong either to Zen Buddhism or Shinto, syncretism obliges. |
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During the festival many devotees bring clay dishes of henna to Qalandar's tomb, as to a Hindu bride on her wedding-night, and spread it on themselves, invoking the name of a Hindu water-god. Amid syncretism, heresy thrives. |
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Piganiol's Constantine is a philosophical monotheist, a child of his era's religious syncretism. |
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Because of pagan syncretism, it is also associated with white magic up to the present day. |
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The Roman polytheism merged with the Gallic paganism into the same syncretism. |
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The entry of Buddhism into China was marked by significant interaction and syncretism with Taoism. |
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While these works were strikingly similar in literary strategy and arrangement of chapters, there was no theological syncretism in the Sira puranam. |
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This would be characterized by religious syncretism and moral relativism, which are indicative of an ideology that denies the possibility of objective truth in ultimate matters. |
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This is said to avoid or reject any thought of syncretism. |
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Yet there's nothing in Bartolini's work of the uncritical enthusiasm of the neophyte or the banal syncretism of the New Ager. |
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It is undoubtedly true that, in a polytheistic world view, tolerance of other gods is implicit, since there is always room for one more figure in the pantheon, and the history of religious syncretism bears out this truth. |
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Such adherents sometimes see syncretism as a betrayal of their pure truth. |
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Diderot portrayed syncretism as the concordance of eclectic sources. |
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This map is a significant mark of the expansion Chinese knowledge of the world, and an important example of cultural syncretism directly between Europe and China. |
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Syncretism is usually defined in terms of attempts to combine or unify elements of different religious systems. |
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