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Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm, ˈsɪn-/) is the
practice of
combining different beliefs and
various schools of thought.
Syncretism involves the
merging or ****imilation...
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social classes. This
social structure was
characterised both by
syncretising with the
native cultures of
northern India but also
eventually by the...
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coinage shows a
seated Zeus, who may have been
worshipped there as a
syncretised form of the
Arabian sun-god Shams.
Tylos was also the site of Gr**** athletic...
- religion, the sun
deity was the male god Helios, who in
later times was
syncretised with Apollo. In
ancient Roman culture,
Sunday was the day of the sun...
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royal family. Like all
modern Indo-Aryan languages,
Nepali grammar has
syncretised heavily,
losing much of the
complex declensional system present in the...
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Malaysia and Singapore. In many
Chinese communities,
Taoism is
easily syncretised with
Mahayana Buddhism, thus
exact religious statistics are difficult...
- with the
French and
American missionaries; as with
Chadian Islam, it
syncretises aspects of pre-Christian
religious beliefs.
Muslims are
largely concentrated...
- many conversions. To the
consternation of the Europeans, Ni-Vanuatu
syncretised Christianity with
traditional kastom beliefs. The
Anglican Melanesian...
- Baucau, and the
Diocese of Maliana. In
rural areas,
Catholicism is
often syncretised with
local animist beliefs. The
number of
Timorese Protestants and Muslims...
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African countries where Islam is dominant,
Muslim communities tend to
syncretise Islam with
Traditional African religions,
leading to a
distinctive "African...
