syncretize

VERB
  1. become fused
  2. unite (beliefs or conflicting principles)
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How To Use syncretize In A Sentence

  • The Jola practice a generally syncretized version of Islam, with a few still holding to animistic ethnic religions. Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
  • Now this is only a simple glossary overview and one can delve deeper into each religion, and those not mentioned here, and choose more components to syncretize until they have a complete religion of their own that fits their individual needs. Room Eight
  • Most are Muslims, having been converted in the late 18th century by wandering preachers, but their traditional religious beliefs are often syncretized with Islam. Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
  • But I agree also with Jeff and the writer of this piece that the artificiality of “genre” versus “literary” needs to be broken down, and the way that works of art borrow from, syncretize, and rework genres needs more acknowledgement. Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities
  • In the US mainland, the Filipino Americans' immediate location, colonial discourses are syncretized into a culture that advocates their assimilation.
  • This article indicates that the legend has Spanish origins (Roman Catholic syncretized with various African traditions) – so – no connection to Maria Lanza, who was Italian-American (and Mario Lanza was his stage name; he was born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza). Archive 2008-02-01
  • Gypsies have tended to syncretize or blend their ethnic Gypsy folk religion with more established religions, such as Christianity.
  • In the history of art, there are many different or opposite style. With the development of society, they syncretize or vanish.
  • What I always liked about Capoeira was how it was presented to me from the first contact with it -- the operative word is 'play' in Portuguese, of course, and it is connected with both a creolized, syncretized African religon, then, naturally certain Brasilian musics, and, as well, a kinetic historic memory of life on slave plantations. Ianmcdonald: Spingate
  • The issue resolves to whether those who claim to follow J-sus will persist in following the Roman Hellenist-redacted syncretized imitation, J-sus, which has misled them, or turn to follow the Torah--in the Pharisee/Orthodox Jewish community--as the *historical* Pharisee Ribi Yehoshua and the Netzarim taught. Bait-and-switch Passover Haggadah? Messianics in the bookstore | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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