syncretic

How To Use syncretic In A Sentence

• Rigorous believers may have a tendency to find "syncretic" what is inculturated from their own traditions. The Western Confucian
• Kingston is at times unsure whether these practices are ‘Buddhism’ or something more syncretic: ‘Chinese religion.’
• Custer has written what might be called a syncretic pop-culture myth, with a knowing eye for the different Biblical Nativity accounts read Matthew and Luke sometime. StarTribune.com rss feed
• Mexico, like the U.S. and Canada, have always been syncretic cultures ... D�a de Muertos vs. Halloween?
• To compute exactly the extent to which these evils have been developed he has devised a syncretic abacus, in which, on the principle of the spectroscope, the aplanatic foci are arranged in fluorescent nodules each equidistant from the metacentre. Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920
• The church, while nominally Christian, is the home of a syncretic religious group that uses as its core sacrament an ancient medicine derived from plant materials known as ayahuasca, and it is said to induce extraordinary and profound visions. Broken Music, A Memoir
• Actually, this is a whole lot like what I just described in terms of cognitive dissonance and syncretic religions.
• But because of cultural and historical circumstances, Korean Zen Buddhism is a little different especially from Japanese Buddhism, and what is interesting about Korean Zen Buddhism is that it's quite syncretic.
• The score is also unified by using a minimalist technique, resulting in what Martynov calls syncretic minimalism. Undefined
• And while the system of grace known as syncretic has endeavoured to harmonize the principles of Thomism and Molinism, it has served but to double the difficulties instead of eliminating them. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon