This has led some scholars to label the practice as a syncretic faith.

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

Today, many of the people practice traditional Midewiwin or a syncretic merging of Christianity and Midewiwin.

Adoption of Christianity was not universal, however, and many Mari today still practice Paganism in syncretic forms, or purer forms adhering to organized Neopagan Mari Traditional Religion organizations.

Such syncretic practices have led Tharu to practice folk Hinduism.

Abangan refers to the population of Javanese Muslims who practice a more syncretic version of Islam than the more orthodox santri.

Paganism remained in practice until the early 19th century, and Chechen Islam today is often described as lax ( often epitomized by the popularity of tobacco and alcohol ) and is indeed, highly syncretic with Chechens building mosques near streams, and referring to God as Deila, the old head of the Vainakh pantheon.

In Bengal, the Bauls still practice a syncretic form of Hinduism that was strongly influenced by Buddhism.

The 2001 census identified 80. 6 % of the population being the religion of Hinduism and Buddhism was practiced by about 11 % of the population ( although many people labelled Hindu or Buddhist often practice a syncretic blend of Hinduism, Buddhism, and / or animist traditions ).

Santo Daime is a syncretic spiritual practice founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu.

* Gospel of Mary: ( English ), syncretic text, incorporating Coptic and earlier Greek versions ; further web links

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The authors propose that Jesus did not literally exist as an historically identifiable individual, but was instead a syncretic re-interpretation of the fundamental pagan " godman " by the Gnostics, who were the original sect of Christianity.

However, although New Age spirituality is more open in its presentation, it continues to rely more or less on a syncretic and esoteric methodology in the formulation of its methods and in the transmission of its wisdom / enlightenment.

Certain syncretic religions have arisen in East Asia which claim to harmonize Buddhism with other religions ; among them are I-Kuan Tao ( Taiwan ), Caodaism ( Vietnam ); Chondogyo ( Korea ), and Oomoto ( Japan ).

Al-Mahdi singled out the persecution of the zanadiqa in order to improve his standing among the purist Shi ' i, who wanted a harder line on heresies, and found the spread of syncretic Muslim-polytheist sects to be particularly virulent.

He was an erudite champion of mystical religious speculation and a poetic diviner of syncretic cultural interaction among people of all faiths.

This use is legal in Brazil among native tribes and several syncretic religions tribes.

Two Afro-Caribbean syncretic faiths, the Shouter or Spiritual Baptist and the Orisha faith ( formerly called Shangos, a less than complimentary term ) are among the fastest growing religious groups, as are a host of American-style evangelical and fundamentalist churches usually lumped as " Pentecostal " by most Trinidadians ( although this designation is often inaccurate ).

The bull is one of the animals associated with the late Hellenistic and Roman syncretic cult of Mithras, in which the killing of the astral bull, the tauroctony, was as central in the cult as the Crucifixion was to contemporary Christians.

Goa has a range of syncretic practices, where both Hindus and Christians worship at each other's shrines.