Syncretism allowed various schools of thought such as Yi, Yin yang, Wu xing and Ren to mutually complement one another without threatening traditional religious practice or new religious movements.

Syncretism must not be confused with ecumenism, the attempt to bring closer and eventually reunite different denominations of one religion that have a common origin but were separated by a schism.

Syncretism | Syncretic Tellus reclining with four children, probably the Seasons, accompanied by Aion ( deity ) | Aion-Uranus ( mythology ) | Uranus within a zodiac wheel ( mosaic from Sentinum, AD 200-250, Glyptothek )

Syncretism is the combining of different ( often contradictory ) beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought.

" And that is their so-called Syncretism ".

Syncretism is the combining of different ( often contradictory ) beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought.

" Syncretism in Africa is said by others to be overstated, and due to a misunderstanding of the abilities to of local populations to form their own orthodoxieto s and also confusion over what is culture and what is religion.

Syncretism also works the other way in Haitian Vodou and many Catholic saints have become Loa in their own right, most notably St. Philomena, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Jude, and St. John the Baptist.

The Syncretism of the Hellenistic period whereby aspects of the cults of foreign Gods such as iconography and epithets, can also be seen as a kind of exclusivism.

Syncretism may involve the merger and analogising of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.

Syncretism tends to facilitate coexistence and unity between otherwise different cultures and worldviews ( intercultural competence ), a factor that has recommended it to rulers of multi-ethnic realms.

Syncretism functioned as a feature of Hellenistic Ancient Greek religion although only outside of Greece.

" Jural Relations as an Indicator of Syncretism: From the Law of Inheritance to the Dum Inlicita of Chindaswinth.

Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, and stars ), the " Queen of Heaven " and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: " Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes.

Syncretism merged the Old Hittite and Hurrian religions.

* Correa, Gustavo, 1955, " El espiritu del mal en Guatemala " in Nativism and Syncretism, Middle American Research Institute Publications 19: 37 – 104, Tulane University.

Some use a mix of Abrahamic, Dharmic, Neopagan, Shamanism, Daoic doctrines, New Age, religious pluralism and Syncretism.

Syncretism, for example, plays a much wider role in non-monotheistic ( and particularly, non-scriptural ) religion.

* Priest, Robert J. Thomas Campbell and Bradford A. Mullen, " Missiological Syncretism: The New Animistic Paradigm ," in Spiritual Power and Missions, Edward Rommem, ed., ( Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1995 ), pp. 143-168.

Syncretism functionized as an essential feature of Ancient Greek religion.

The professor of Germanic linguistics, William Carpenter based the study of Germanic languages on the methods of comparative linguistics that were being developed into a more scientific framework, than the traditional philological approach.

One traditional etymology connects it to the name of the Helveconae, a Germanic tribe mentioned in Ancient Greek and Latin sources, but the etymology or language of the tribal name is not known.

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

The Hindu, Thai, Hebrew, Islamic, Tibetan, Mayan, Ani-yvnwiya ( Cherokee ), Neo-pagan, Germanic, Celtic, and the traditional Chinese calendars are all based on the phases of the Moon.

As such, various modern scholars have begun to apply the term to three groups of separate faiths: Historical Polytheism ( such as Celtic polytheism, Norse Paganism, the Cultus Deorum Romanorum and Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism also called Hellenismos ), Folk / ethnic / Indigenous religions ( such as Chinese folk religion and African traditional religion ), and Neopaganism ( such as Wicca and Germanic Neopaganism ).

The script had Nevsky utter a number of traditional Russian proverbs, verbally rooting his fight against the Germanic invaders in Russian traditions.

According to the traditional etymology the Slavic name derives from the Germanic ethnonym Silingi.

Aspects of the legend have been considered to have pagan overtones or influences — this may represent a fusion of his status as a traditional Germanic warrior-king with Christianity.

Frisia is the traditional homeland of the Frisians, a Germanic people who speak Frisian, a language group closely related to the English language.

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three traditional branches of the Germanic family of languages and include languages such as German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, the Frisian languages, and Yiddish.

The other two of these three traditional branches of the Germanic languages are the North and East Germanic languages.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, particularly in the traditional Germanic repertoire of such composers as J. S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

Traditional North Germanic Norwegian vocal music includes ( kvad ), ballads and short, often improvised songs ( stev ), among the most common types of traditional music.

In Colonia Tovar is held annually in October, the Germanic traditional festival known as Oktoberfest.

The core metrical features of traditional Germanic alliterative verse are as follows:

Hörgar are attested in the Poetic Edda ; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda ; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, sagas, in the poetry of skalds, the Old English poem Beowulf, and in various place names, often in connection with Germanic deities.

It was a traditional Germanic system described as early as AD 98 by Tacitus ( the centeni ).

The Halle region is located exactly at the intersection of the Germanic and Slavic spheres of influence of the 10th century, but it is also a traditional mining and chemical industry area ( Halle-Leipzig-Bitterfeld ) that has attracted Slavic workers during the Industrial Revolution.

Some traditional Germanic communities in the northeast of the United States have preserved a Krampus tradition ; in these he goes by Bellsnichol and combines aspects of both the wild man and Saint Nicholas.

The traditional Sami religion is kindred to the religions of other Uralic ethnicities, such as the Finnish religion, and has many influences of Germanic Heathenism, such as the worship of god Thor as Horagalles or Thoragalles.

The traditional ballads of the Northumbrian / Scottish borders, and their European counterparts, have also preserved many aspects of Germanic belief.