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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 ...
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  • ===Syncretism=== Within Christianity, the begging Lazarus of the parable ... Via syncretism, Lazarus has become an important figure in Santeria ...
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  • ancient world where a great deal of dialogue and syncretism among different civilizations took place—not merely strife and warfare. ...
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  • Manichaean theology were its dualism and syncretism. Regarding its teachings ... of Manichaeism was its overt religious syncretism. Mani made every effort ...
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  • is cited as the best example of syncretism between Jewish and Hellenistic thought. However, it should be noted that the book also constitutes ...
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  • Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and thus became a laboratory for religious syncretism and cross-cultural fermentation. Following Alexander the Great's invasion of north-western ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...
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  • Vedantic thought, with its representative syncretism of Samkhya, Yoga, and Upanishadic thought. It is itself called an "upanishad" and all major ...
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  • Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "Yoga practice;" "one whose practice is yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed ...
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  • of many other goddesses. This process of syncretism became tremendously popular ... of Mary and Isis are not proof of syncretism, since they could represent ...
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  • cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine): Five of the seven academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias ...
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  • cultural world and suggest the broad syncretism of the common culture (see koine). Five of the seven Academy philosophers mentioned by Agathias ...
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  • such that the effect of Cumont's syncretism theories are felt even ... the same as that practiced elsewhere; syncretism was a feature of Roman ...
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  • 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 ...
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