| Actually, this is a whole lot like what I just described in terms of cognitive dissonance and syncretic religions. |
| Venezuelans' fascination with such things has a foundation in spiritism, sorcery, and syncretic faiths. |
| There is no distinct political dimension in the syncretic pragmatics of immediacy. |
| It is in the Mahabharata that we get the syncretic picture of lokasamgraha through the concepts of caturvarnashrama dharma and moksha. |
| The Vietnamese people adhere to a syncretic religious tradition that is a mixture of Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. |
| At this threshold, syncretic human interaction was already rooted in well defined patterns of practical experience. |
