The religious environment of Gandhi's childhood was, as Parekh puts it, "eclectic:" his mother was associated with the
syncretistic Pranami sect of Hinduism, which venerated the Koran as a holy book along with Vedantic scripture, and his father, a chief administrator of the court of Porbandar, freely associated with Jains and Christians.
It is in this
syncretistic, circular identity of the Virgin and the Solomonic Temple that Wright finds the key to the motet's proportions.
Hibbs's music was, if not revolutionary, then sharply evolutionary and
syncretistic. In the popular traditions of music in Newfoundland in the 1950s, the accordionist was mainly an instrumentalist.
So for the Orthodox no inclusive language in speaking about God, no leadership of women and no
syncretistic elements should be used in common prayer.
The church is, however, highly
syncretistic in that it freely takes rituals and symbols from folk Catholicism, as well as from Afro-Brazilian religions.
The Gnostic gospels, of which there are many besides this one, are not Christian documents per se, since they proceed from a
syncretistic sect that incorporated elements from different religions, including Christianity.
86), a Renaissance man of arts and science, Herwig sets out to show that Mann's true skill consisted in hiding his
syncretistic and often accidental finds by their intellectual and artistic transformation into an ambitiously conceived work of high aesthetic quality.
A small minority of Christians practice Kimbanguism, a
syncretistic movement that originated in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The remainder of the chapter makes it clear that these enemies are not primarily foreign nations that threaten Jerusalem but
syncretistic Judeans who engage in superstitious faith practices (see Isa 65:1-9, Proper 7).
It was the potential for these three forces to create a "perfect storm" that led Ratzinger, as early as a speech to the bishops of Asia in Hong Kong in 1993, to identify the theology of religious pluralism as the most dangerous movement in Catholic thought today--analogous, he said, to the challenges posed by liberation theology in the 1980s, not to mention the
syncretistic philosophy of religion that dominated the late Roman Empire.
The material is organized into sections examining football-related phenomena in relation to five major aspects of globalization processes: international migration, the global flow of capital, the
syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space, and the revolution in information technologies.
A lacuna in K.'s South African analysis is the fact that most black Christians in South Africa belong to African Initiated Churches, the theologies of which are disparate, expressing a range of Pentecostal, BT, and
syncretistic themes.