Search results for "Syncretism" - New World Encyclopedia
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- in the 20th century, many proposing syncretism of elements of established religions. ==Demographics== Religious traditions fall into super-groups ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- and Mencian ethics. This newly created syncretism, expressed most forcefully by Zhu Xi, was persuasive enough to become Imperial orthodoxy for ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- Buddha soon settled into coexistence. In fact, syncretism between Buddhism and Shinto (神仏集合, shinbutsushūgō, Shinto-Buddhism synthesis) was ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- Religious syncretism still prevailed throughout Khmer society. The state religion of Shaivism may have withstood Suryavarman's turn to Vishnu ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- or a pre-Mycenaean syncretism between the Tyrrhenian "ati," meaning "mother" and the Hurrian Goddess "Hannahannah," ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- in Gandhara through the Greco-Buddhist syncretism. This iconic art was characterized from the start by a realistic idealism, combining realistic ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- religion. This tendency toward syncretism has resulted in the inclusion of shamanic beliefs and practices. A visit to one of Korea’s many Buddhist ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist, and author. He established himself in Mexico ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- of sages Kabir and Guru Nanak as well as the syncretism of Mughal emperor Akbar's Din-i-Illahi school. Open your heart — within you dwell ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- (see below) is a mythological illustration of syncretism, in which a tribe under the banner of the elephant is assimilated into the Brahmanic fold. ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- example of religious tolerance, perhaps even syncretism, or at least a master of diplomacy. The Galle Trilingual Inscription set up by Zheng He around ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- India), and then localizing them through overt syncretism and reinterpretations in popular folklore (see below). In this context, Japanese Buddhists ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
- Thangka paintings, a syncretism of Indian scroll-painting with Nepalese and Kashmiri painting, appeared in Tibet around the 8th century. Rectangular ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- and worship, a phenomenon known as syncretism. The practice of traditional Mayan religion is increasing as a result of the cultural protections ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- be known, was largely a product of Alexandrian syncretism, drawing together themes from Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy and mythology, and classical Egyptian ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia. Members of the Bahá'í faith understand ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- century onwards credit him with a Neo-Confucian syncretism of Chán Buddhist Shaolin martial arts with his mastery of Taoist Tao Yin (neigong) principles ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
