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In History of the United States

What are two examples of cultural syncretism in the Americas?

Kwanzaa It is an African American and pan African culture. It celebrated by African Americans in the U.S. When we have Easter egg hunts, we are combining a Christian holiday… (MORE)

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In Religion & Spirituality

What does the term Syncretism mean?

Answer . Syncretism . From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory beliefs, often while melding… (MORE)

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In Religion & Spirituality

What is syncretism?

Syncretism is the process by which elements of one religion is assimilated into another religion resulting change in the fundamental tenets or nature of those religions.

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In Religion & Spirituality

What is a syncretic religion?

Answer . The term 'Syncretism' can be applied in perhaps two ways when discussing religion. It applies to the process whereby all religions gradually adopt ideas from the r… (MORE)

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In Languages and Cultures

What is an example of cultural syncretism in Mexico?

Well, THE example would be the Spanish conquest, in which the Spanish imposed Catholicism upon the indigenous populations of Mexico and all of Latin America. A more basic exam… (MORE)

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In Religion & Spirituality

What is an example of a syncretic religious movement?

Syncretism is generally mixing of any two beliefs, particularly religious beliefs. A major push of syncretism between Paganism and Christianity was initiated by the Roman Empe… (MORE)

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In History of the United States

What are two examples of cultural syncretism in the Caribbean?

Syncretism is defined as the combining of different, oftenseemingly contradictory beliefs, while melding practices of variousschools of thought. The Rastafari movement mixes e… (MORE)

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In Roman Empire

Why do you call Roman philosophy syncretic?

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to ga… (MORE)

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In History of the United States

What does the term cultural syncretism mean?

Cultural syncretism refers to when a group of people share a commonculture or cultural trait.

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In Religion & Spirituality

Why are most people who practice a syncretic religion unaware that they do so?

A: A syncretic religion is one that brings together two distinct sets of belief to create an entirely new one. Relatively modern examples of syncretism include Druze (which …integrates the beliefs of Ismaili Islam with the philosophical doctrines of Gnosticism and Platonism), Sikhism and Bahai. However, there are some surprising earlier, mainstream examples. Daoism, an ancient Chinese religion incorporates elements of Chinese folk religion and Chinese Buddhism. At the time Islam arose in southern Arabia, paganism, Christianity and Judaism were contesting for followers. Islam can be said to incorporate elements of early Orthodox Christianity and of Judaism, as well as the local pagan beliefs. For example, Muslim jinn were known in pre-Islamic pagan belief. Christianity is also a syncretic religion. It incorporates elements of Zoroastrianism that were not fully adopted by Judaism or, like hell or the evil personality of Satan, were subsequently rejected by Judaism. Within the context of their Judaic origin, some scholars also detect two different proto-Christian traditions that eventually merged to become modern Christianity. One is a sayings tradition that knew nothing of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, which Burton L Mack calls the Jesus Movement. The other, which Burton L Mack calls the Christ cult, taught of the crucifixion and destiny of Christ but knew little of the teachings attributed to Jesus. The 'Word' in John chapter 1 is based on the Greek Logos and entered Christianity via Philo of Alexandria. Judaism is heavily syncretic. A number of concepts that were first adopted during the Babylonian Exile, parallel existing concepts in Zoroastrianism. The Jewish God was formerly known as YHWH (pronounced 'Yahweh', modern Hebrew: YHVH ), but Keel and Uehlinger ( Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel ) say that Yahweh was originally a storm God, later becoming worshipped as the sun God and only being understood as a universal God in the late monarchy. What I have tried to show here is that every religion, with the possible exception of Animism, is a syncretic religion - yet scarcely anyone thinks of his or her religion as syncretic. Most people who devoutly believe in a particular religion will think of it as the only true religion, which usually precludes knowledge of its syncretic past. (MORE)