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sing-kruh-TIS-tik
adjective
the fusion of disparate beliefs into one new belief; to combine disparate things
1915Songs of KabirIn fifteenth-century Benares the syncretistic tendencies of Bhakti religion had reached full development.1933The Dragon Murder CaseVahagn, the most popular of all the Armenian deities, was known far and wide as the 'dragon-reaper,' and in later syncretistic times he was identified with Heracles.1961Stranger In A Strange LandThat might be where Mike picked it up, since all the forms he uses are openly syncretistic, especially that Earth-Mother ritual.2002Enduring CubaSantería, 'the worship of saints', a Cuban syncretisation of Spanish Catholicism and Yoruba religion, is a merging of tradition and magic.Labels: Robert A. Heinlein, S. S. Van Dine, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Zoë Brân
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