Syncretism (/ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm, ˈsɪn-/) is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation...

Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition...

distinction ever existed. The term syncretism is often used when a fairly regular pattern can be observed across a paradigm. Syncretism is a specific form of linguistic...

achieve a goal of reconciliation. Political syncretism is also referred to as catch-all politics, and syncretism is characterized by vague positioning on...

("Mercury the Teetotaler"), a syncretism of Mercury with a Carthaginian god of commerce. Mercurius Visucius, a syncretism of the Celtic god Visucius with...

The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the first-century, spread geographically...

Moral syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory moral beliefs, often while melding the ethical practices of various schools...

had a fear of syncretism, which was carried on by current African Christian leadership in an attempt to keep Christianity "pure." Syncretism in Africa is...

United States. In Latin America, Yoruba religion has been in intense Syncretism with Christianity, Indigenous religions and Spiritism since the first...

juxtaposition in various fields from syncretism, arguing that "juxtaposition and syncretism are in antithesis, syncretism being the predominance of the whole...