A syncretic religion from Brazil.

The resulting " Indo-Muslim " fusion of cultures left lasting syncretic monuments in architecture, music, literature, religion, and clothing.

Most Japanese people generally do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of only one religion, but rather incorporate various elements in a syncretic fashion.

The Berbers went on to shape Islam in their own image – some ( like the Banu Ifran ) retained their connection with radical puritan Islamic sects, others ( like the Berghwata ) constructed a new syncretic faith which was simply folk religion thinly disguised as Islam.

Syncretic or eclectic approaches are sometimes inspired by historical traditions, but are not bound by any strict identification with a historical religion or culture ; eclectic and syncretic movements freely combine elements of multiple religious traditions.

Gollancz often claimed to be a Christian, although he was never baptised and his understanding of the religion was a highly idiosyncratic one, overall his personal syncretic faith drew on Pelagian Christianity, Judaism, and wide-ranging reading across religious traditions.

Cumont's thesis was re-examined in 1971, and Mithras is now believed to be a syncretic deity only slightly influenced by Persian religion.

Although Catholicism is generally seen as the dominant religion, some believe that many natives practice a syncretic blend of Christian and indigenous beliefs.

He rejected the syncretic move that placed alchemy, cabbala and Christian religion on the same footing ; and Fludd's anima mundi.

Most Japanese people do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of a single religion ; rather, they incorporate elements of various religions in a syncretic fashion known as.

Japanese religion has traditionally been syncretic in nature, combining elements of Buddhism and Shinto.

The conflict, which overlapped the wars in Waikato and Tauranga, was fuelled by a combination of factors: lingering Māori resentment over the sale of land at Waitara in 1860 and government delays in resolving the issue ; a large-scale land confiscation policy launched by the government in late 1863 ; and the rise of the Hauhau movement, an extremist part of the Pai Marire syncretic religion, which was strongly opposed to the alienation of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity.

In addition, Catholicism was syncretic, absorbing other traditions and creating a new creole religion.

The religion of Bagan was fluid, syncretic and by later standards, unorthodox.

The Yaqui religion, which is a syncretic religion of old Yaqui beliefs and practices and the Christian teachings of Jesuit and later Franciscan missionaries, relies upon song, music, prayer, and dancing, all performed by designated members of the community.

The conflict, which overlapped the wars in Waikato and Tauranga, was fuelled by a combination of factors: lingering Māori resentment over the sale of land at Waitara in 1860 and government delays in resolving the issue ; a large-scale land confiscation policy launched by the government in late 1863 ; and the rise of the Hauhau movement, an extremist part of the Pai Marire syncretic religion, which was strongly opposed to the alienation of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity.

Informally, in the tradition of the Afro-Brazilian syncretic religion Umbanda, Sebastian is often associated with Oxossi, especially in the state of Rio de Janeiro itself.

The resulting " Indo-Muslim " fusion of cultures left lasting syncretic monuments in architecture, music, literature, religion and clothing.

The naturally syncretic approach of Greek religion blurred distinctions.

Roman Catholicism combined with the indigenous Maya religion are the unique syncretic religion which prevailed throughout the country and still does in the rural regions.

This revolt, however, was secularly-motivated as they clamored for a more syncretic form of religion based on ancient Visayan rituals and Christianity.

Grimassi describes the roots of Stregheria as a syncretic offshoot of Etruscan religion that later blended with " Tuscan peasant religion ", medieval Christian heresy, and veneration of saints.

Messianic Judaism is a syncretic religious movement that arose in the 1960s and 70s.

The use of the swastika by the Bön faith of Tibet, as well as later syncretic religions, such as Cao Dai of Vietnam and Falun Gong of China, can also be traced to Buddhist influence.

The syncretic music developed during the post-Portuguese period ( 16th century ) and contains elements from both local music and foreign elements of Arabian, Persian, Indian, Chinese and Western musical and theatrical sources.

Academically, it refers to a syncretic sect founded during the Ming Dynasty by Lin Zhaoen.

Haitian Vodou ( also known as Voodoo in the United States ) is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals introduced during the French colonial period, African beliefs, with roots in the Yoruba, Kongo and Dahomey mythology, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino Amerindians that once populated the island.

" It is important to note that because of European economic pressure the Kingdom of Kongo had officially converted to Catholicism while still an independent nation during the late 15th century and that the African-Catholic syncretic movement extended well into the era of slavery, reaching its height under the leadership of Kimpa Vita ( 1684 – 1706 ), who promoted Saint Anthony of Padua as " a second God.

The origins of the Balinese came from three periods: The first waves of immigrants came from Java and Kalimantan in the prehistoric times of the proto-Malay stock ; the second wave of Balinese came slowly over the years from Java during the Hindu period ; the third and final period came from Java, between the 15th and 16th centuries, at the time of the conversion of Islam in Java, aristocrats fled to Bali from the Javanese Majapahit Empire to escape Islamic conversion, reshaping the Balinese culture into a syncretic form of classical Javanese culture with many Balinese elements.

Black Seminoles inclined toward a syncretic form of Christianity developed during the plantation years.

Late Antiquity marks the decline of Roman state religion, circumscribed in degrees by edicts likely inspired by Christian advisors such as Eusebius to 4th century emperors, and a period of dynamic religious experimentation and spirituality with many syncretic sects, some formed centuries earlier, such as Gnosticism or Neoplatonism and the Chaldaean oracles, some novel, such as hermeticism.

Zheng is notable for his syncretic attempt to bridge the two centuries of rivalry between the two schools.

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

He observes that " Mithras — moreover, a Mithras who was identified with the Greek Sun god Helios " was among the gods of the syncretic Graeco-Armenian-Iranian royal cult at Nemrut founded by Antiochus I of Commagene in the mid 1st century BC.

The countless epithets of the Olympian gods reflect their syncretic identification with these various figures.

The vodun are the centre of religious life, similarly in many ways to doctrines such as the intercession of saints and angels that made Vodun appear compatible with Christianity, especially Catholicism, and produced syncretic religions such as Haitian Vodou.

The religious practices of druids were syncretic and borrowed from earlier pagan traditions, with probably indo-European roots.

Isis was the only goddess worshiped by all Egyptians alike, and whose influence was so widespread that she had become completely syncretic with the Greek goddess Demeter.

These various forms may possibly be different perceptions of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality.

Another movement, very small in comparison to other new religions, is Vissarionism, a syncretic group with an Orthodox Christian background.

Buddhism and Shinto were amalgamated in the shinbutsu shūgō, and Kūkai's syncretic view held wide sway up until the end of the Edo period, coexisting with Shinto elements within Shugendō

In the Mystery cults of the highly syncretic Hellenistic era Pan is made cognate with Phanes / Protogonos, Zeus, Dionysus and Eros.

Since Shinto and Buddhism had molded into a syncretic belief in the prior one-thousand years and Buddhism had been closely connected with the shogunate, this involved the separation of Shinto and Buddhism ( shinbutsu bunri ) and the associated destruction of various Buddhist temples and related violence ( haibutsu kishaku ).

He was the Egyptian counterpart to the Greek god Apollo, who was made syncretic with Horus in the Hellenistic era as ' Horus the Elder '.

Several of the major Greek goddesses also were identified with Tanit by the syncretic, interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the deities of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.

In the Bahia State ( Brazil ), Obatala has been syncretized with Our Lord of Bonfim and is the subject of a large syncretic religious celebration, the Festa do Bonfim, which takes place in January in the city of Salvador and includes the washing of the church steps with a special water, made with flowers.

Some schools associate him with Hermes, especially Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic Egyptian / Greek figure who is a combination of Hermes and of Thoth, a god of the moon, knowledge, and writing.

In church matters, as in philosophy, the two were opposed — Pletho advocated a partial return to Greek paganism in the form of a syncretic union between Christianity and Zoroastrianism ; while Georgios, more cautious, pressed the necessity for ecclesiastical union with Rome on doctrinal grounds, and was instrumental in drawing up a form which from its vagueness and ambiguity might be accepted by both parties.

A civil war started in 1803 with the Padri fundamentalist Islamic group in conflict with the traditional syncretic groups, elite families and Pagaruyung royals.

Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins from the Cuban Son ( circa 1920s ) and Afro-Cuban dance ( specifically Afro-Cuban rumba )..

In Haiti, Cuba, and other Caribbean islands, the worship of the Vodoun gods ( called lwa or loas ) is practiced in a syncretic form that has been greatly modified by contact with Catholicism.