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original religion,
rendering it no
longer true. Indeed,
critics of a
syncretistic trend may use the word or its
variants as a
disparaging epithet, as a...
- The
syncretistic controversy was the
theological debate focusing on
efforts to
unite Protestant churches in 17th
century Germany. It was
started mainly...
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survived only in
fragmentary tales and
allegories embedded in vast,
syncretistic compendia. On the whole, the
Aryan contribution to
Indian culture is...
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among Native peoples is
known as the
Native American Church. It is a
syncretistic church incorporating elements of
Native spiritual practice from a number...
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regent in 1658, as a
result of his father's illness. Dara
championed a
syncretistic Hindu-Muslim culture,
emulating his great-grandfather Akbar. With the...
- "Scientologies".
Urban describes Scientology as
representing a "rich
syncretistic blend" of sources,
including elements from
Hinduism and Buddhism, Thelema...
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Chalcedon and
Constantinople III).
Gnosticism refers to a diverse,
syncretistic religious movement consisting of
various belief systems generally united...
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colonization of
Brazil led to the
development of a
diverse array of
syncretistic practices within the
overarching umbrella of
Brazilian Catholic Church...
- dead. He is
known to be
closely tied to
Osiris Serapis, Graeco-Egyptian
syncretistic deity,
combining elements of Osiris, the Apis Bull, Hades, Demeter, and...
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American scholarship views Sethianism as "a
distinctly inner-Jewish,
albeit syncretistic and heterodox, phenomenon",
while British and
French scholarship tends...
