Syncretism is the blending or combination of elements from different religious or cultural traditions.It is recognized that syncretism is a general feature of the development of religious and cultural systems.
Religions and cultureswhen they come into contact with one another mutually absorb some elements and reinterpret them.
However all cultures are marked by a variety of borrowed and diffused elements.Diffusionts and ethnohistorians dealing with migrations,population movements,invasions and colonial empires have used the word syncretic in describing the evolution of new cultural and social system.The African-American culture is a blend of the elements of American,European and African traditions.
The term syncretism also holds good in situations of cultural contact which gives rise to religious systems which are a mixture of Christian and native elements.Such syncretisation enables reinterpretaion of Christian doctrine in term of local beliefs.
Theologians have used the term to religious systems like Hinduism and Buddhism which are amalgams of different traditions.
Religions and cultureswhen they come into contact with one another mutually absorb some elements and reinterpret them.
However all cultures are marked by a variety of borrowed and diffused elements.Diffusionts and ethnohistorians dealing with migrations,population movements,invasions and colonial empires have used the word syncretic in describing the evolution of new cultural and social system.The African-American culture is a blend of the elements of American,European and African traditions.
The term syncretism also holds good in situations of cultural contact which gives rise to religious systems which are a mixture of Christian and native elements.Such syncretisation enables reinterpretaion of Christian doctrine in term of local beliefs.
Theologians have used the term to religious systems like Hinduism and Buddhism which are amalgams of different traditions.
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