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"Syncretic" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Xavier proclaims a syncretic stance in religion.
"Mario, in Latin Asia, a popular religion is the syncretic Buddhocatholicism." "I didn't know that, Bartolomeo."
Vodun is a syncretic African-American or African diasporic faith that combines traditional religions of west and central Africa with Catholicism. Versions are found in Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Louisiana, and in west Africa among speakers of the Gbe language family.
Religious people may like the article "Holiness and Wholeness: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality in the Korean Syncretic Context."
Some years ago, having viewed the snowy Inuit film "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner," I gravitated more to my syncretic Animist-Buddhist cosmology.
It is the 22nd of March of 2015. A good religious stance is being Dharmic, essentially Hindu-Buddhist. But I still like Animism, as in Dào and Shintō. Science is so essential. So, what my stance today is Syncretic. It means a mixture. I prefer to be an Easterner in the realm of religion.
The Baháʼí Faith is part of a long tradition of syncretic Iranian religions.
I am a linguaphile. Amongst the identities that I assume are being a "Japino" and being a "Mexipino" too. I cherish native cultures and languages around this world from the Arctic to the Pacific to the Amazon to the Oz Outback. I think that imagination is very important. I read and watch speculative fiction in a rainbow of languages. I watch anime. My religious stance is Syncretic, with a leaning towards Eastern.
Some sci-fi buff friends of mine think that all I need is sci-fi as an exercise in understanding reality through irreality, something I have been doing since reading Dr. Seuss imaginary books in Grade 1, in my private school of La Salle Green Hills in Metro Manila in the Philippines. I analyse that it may have been originally Dr. Seuss books that encouraged me to pursue the sci-fi imaginarium throughout my life. Some sci-fact buffs, however, incline away from sci-fi, which they may think is childish, frivolous "hypotheticals." I also believe in sci-fact, with which, dwelling in sci-fi, I become more stimulated. I am inclined both to sci-fact and to sci-fi, and if I had to select a spiritual path, it would be Syncretic, leaning towards Eastern and Indigenous traditions, but not necessarily dismissing other traditions. I am open-minded. For many like me, reality is not enough...
The Mughal Emperor Akbar developed a syncretic "universal faith."
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In Islamic villages below Tengger, however, more syncretic communities still celebrate annual village ritual festivals (slametan desa, slametan tuyo) designed to give homage to the spirits of the mountains and insure the flow of their waters.
1999, John B. Henderson, Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, Kai-wing Chow, On Cho Ng, John B. Henderson (editors), Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, State University of New York Press, page 112, From the point of view of many late Ming and Ch'ing scholars, the most syncretic, as well as the most threatening heretic of all was a nominal Confucian, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1528).
To cite another obvious case, there can be few things more syncretic than Roman Catholic canon law, where the doctrine of a Galilean peasant was built into Roman imperial legality.
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