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- ===Syncretism and Periods of Religious Thought=== Cao Dai recognizes the diversity of religious history in both the East and West, and moves to ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- ===Syncretism=== Within Christianity, the begging Lazarus of the parable ... Via syncretism, Lazarus has become an important figure in Santeria ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
- ancient world where a great deal of dialogue and syncretism among different civilizations took place—not merely strife and warfare. ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Manichaean theology were its dualism and syncretism. Regarding its teachings ... of Manichaeism was its overt religious syncretism. Mani made every effort ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- is cited as the best example of syncretism between Jewish and Hellenistic thought. However, it should be noted that the book also constitutes ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- adopted certain beliefs and practices as a syncretism of certain mystery religions such as Mithraism, and that this may be the origin of the ichthys ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- and thus became a laboratory for religious syncretism and cross-cultural fermentation. Following Alexander the Great's invasion of north-western ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Graves sees the rest of the myth as a syncretism of diverse stories: Gilgamesh and the Scorpion-Men; Set becoming a scorpion to kill Horus; the ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- adopted by Jews engaged in the occult and syncretism as early as the era of King Solomon. However such claims are unlikely due to the scarcity of evidence ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- system for each doctrine. It is distinct from syncretism, the attempt to reconcile or combine systems, in that it does not attempt to resolve the contradictions ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- of the dead. Just as a process of syncretism has given rise to cults ... the spirit of the water. The spirit of syncretism manifests itself in this ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- Vedantic thought, with its representative syncretism of Samkhya, Yoga, and Upanishadic thought. It is itself called an "upanishad" and all major ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "Yoga practice;" "one whose practice is yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- of many other goddesses. This process of syncretism became tremendously popular ... of Mary and Isis are not proof of syncretism, since they could represent ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine): Five of the seven academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine). Five of the seven Academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- such that the effect of Cumont's syncretism theories are felt even ... the same as that practiced elsewhere; syncretism was a feature of Roman ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- The Greek habits of syncretism assimilated all foreign gods under some form of the Olympian pantheon familiar to them. It is clear that at Ephesus ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Burman, Gujarat Unknown: Hindu Muslim Syncretism And Humanistic Forays ... *Burman, J.J. Roy Gujarat Unknown: Hindu Muslim Syncretism And Humanistic ...36 KB (5,036 words) - 16:42, 6 December 2023
- of the Afro-Brazilian religious syncretism Saint Sebastian is often associated with Ogum, especially in the state of Bahia, in the northeast ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- version (whether it be direct extrapolation or syncretism) is unclear. See John McKinnell, "The Context of Völundarkviða," Saga-Book ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- had long lived in an environment of religious syncretism. When Tang forces conquered Turkestan (630) and reopened the ancient trade route to the West ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- One intriguing point of potential syncretism is the description of the cosmos before creation as a chaotic, watery void Barton, 17-19. ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- with the Sun Goddess, and a gradual syncretism of Buddhism and Shinto ensued. Shōmu declared himself the "Servant of the Three Treasures ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- impetus in Hindu thought towards inclusion and syncretism. Until the creation of the trinity, Vishnu, Shiva, and to a lesser extent Brahma were recognized ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- dynasty, this deity became Serapis, a Hellenistic syncretism between the popular Egyptian cult and the iconography (and characterization) of the Greek ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- One negative side-effect of this Greek syncretism is that it becomes difficult to tell which gods Hellenized Egyptians (or Greek immigrants) ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- Burman, Gujarat Unknown: Hindu Muslim Syncretism And Humanistic Forays ... *Burman, J.J. Roy Gujarat Unknown: Hindu Muslim Syncretism And Humanistic ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- limited and led to a significant amount of syncretism between Christian and pagan elements. With religion so loosely applied, it was rare for people ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- That form of syncretism presented the Christian churches in India with a perplexing dilemma, requiring theological reflection on the interface ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- time, however, she was opposed to religious syncretism, claiming that it effaced the particularity of the individual traditions: Each religion ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Zuni |image=[[Image:Zuni-girl-with-jar2 ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica, is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo. It is the country's largest seaport, serving ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- with it) developed through a long process of syncretism and theological innovation, both of which were tempered by the political fortunes of the cult ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- a woman nursing her child. Arising from this syncretism, the goddess Seshat, who had earlier been thought of as Thoth's wife, came to be identified ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- point of view (mainly Averroistic), of the syncretism of Aristotelianism and Jewish orthodoxy as presented in that work. ===Hasdai Crescas=== ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- 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
