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.

Monisms may be theologically syncretic by proposing that there is one God who has many manifestations in the diverse religious traditions.

The Nation of Islam ( NOI ) is a syncretic new religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930.

There is politics that rejects the conventional left-right spectrum, this is known as syncretic politics.

Due to the syncretic nature of Shinto and Buddhism, most " life " events are handled by Shinto and " death " or " afterlife " events are handled by Buddhism — for example, it is typical in Japan to register or celebrate a birth at a Shinto shrine, while funeral arrangements are generally dictated by Buddhist tradition — although the division is not exclusive.

John Frum, a syncretic sect, also is important on Tanna Island.

He is thought to be a syncretic deity, a combination of the autochthonous Urartian figure Ara and the Iranic Ahura Mazda.

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

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

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

Because of its similarities to the tenets of Discordianism, The Church of the SubGenius is often described as a syncretic offshoot of that belief.

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

Her syncretic iconographical depiction is usually based on that of the Virgin and Child, because she is the mother of Ti.

A common syncretic depiction of Erzulie Dantor is St. Jeanne D ' Arc, who is displayed carrying or supporting a sword.

He is also prominently represented as Saint George in the syncretic traditions of contemporary Brazil.

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

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.

Among the most notable exceptions is Santería, a syncretic hybrid of African animism and Christianity.

Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. ( born Louis Eugene Wolcott ; May 11, 1933, and formerly known as Louis X ) is the leader of the syncretic and mainly African-American religious movement the Nation of Islam ( NOI ).

The result is a diverse and syncretic set of styles of Cajun and Creole music.

With the rise of Shaivism and Vaishnavism in the early centuries of the Common era, Hinduism is generally monistic and henotheistic: there is practically a consensus that there is a supreme, absolute, and omnipresent divine entity.

Modern Rabbinical Judaism is monotheistic, but its Canaanite religion antecedent in ancient Israel and Judah ( 10th to 7th centuries BC ) was henotheistic.

Furthermore it is not clear to what extent Akhenaten's Atenism was monotheistic rather than henotheistic with Akhenaten himself identified with the god Aten.

Hinduism is sometimes overgeneralized to as henotheistic.

The deified Aten is the focus of the monolatristic, henotheistic, or monotheistic religion of Atenism established by Amenhotep IV, who later took the name Akhenaten in worship and recognition of Aten.

Others consider it henotheistic, that is, Zalmoxis would have been the supreme god at whose side exist minor divinities who are closely associated with him.

Demonization is the reinterpretation of polytheistic deities as evil, lying demons by other religions, generally monotheistic and henotheistic ones.

While some claim that it is obvious from his inscriptions that he became almost henotheistic, others consider Nabonidus to have been similar to other Babylonian rulers, in that he respected the other cults and religions in his kingdom.

This category is for articles relating to an esoteric and henotheistic God, a Supreme Being whose existence does not rule out the presence of other Gods.

In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).

In the 1960s, theologian Charles Hartshorne scrupulously examined and rejected both deism and pandeism ( as well as pantheism ) in favor of a conception of God whose characteristics included " absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others " or " AR ", writing that this theory " is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism ", concluding that " panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations ".

Neoplatonism is polytheistic and panentheistic.

Earliest reference to panentheistic thought in Hindu philosophy is in a creation myth contained in the later section of Rig Veda called the Purusha Sukta, which was compiled before 1100 BCE.

The relationship between Brahman and the creation is often thought to be panentheistic.

Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.

Caitanya's Gaudiya Vaishnavism, which elucidates the doctrine of Acintya Bheda Abheda ( inconceivable oneness and difference ), is also thought to be panentheistic.

While mainstream Rabbinic Judaism is classically monotheistic and follows in the footsteps of the Aristotelian theologian Maimonides, the panentheistic conception of God can be found in certain Jewish mystical currents.

There is some debate as to whether Lurianic Kabbalah, with its doctrine of Tzimtzum, can be regarded as panentheistic.

Odinani is a panentheistic faith, having a strong central deity at its head.

Ọdịnala is a panentheistic faith, having a strong central deity at its head.

The foundation-stone of Hasidism as laid by Besht is a strongly marked panentheistic conception of God.

It is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane.

Creation is panentheistic ( taking place fully " within God "), and acosmic ( Illusionary ) from the Divine perspective.

Old Man is not an anthropomorphic and anthropopathic god like Jesus, nor a panentheistic deity as in Brahmanism out of which the whole fabric of existence is derived.