syncretistic

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But we need no names here, as a syncretistic, ascetic Judaism could and did arise everywhere in Palestine and the Diaspora Footnote 332: Freudenthal's "Hellenistische Studien" informs us as to the Samaritan syncretism; see also Hilgenfeld's "Ketzergeschichte", p. 149 ff.

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  1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by syncretism. Many things led to a syncretistic stage of worship. Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XVII., App., p. ix.
  2. Pertaining to the syncretists: as, the syncretistic controversy (a bitter controversy in the Lutheran Church, in the seventeenth century, regarding the tenets of the syncretists).

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  • As a retired American History and government teacher I would be very interested in what a cultural historian would have to say about Redding and her syncretistic (or would it be bifurcated) religious views. —  GetReligion
  • In fact, 'paganism', i.e. basically Greek religion in its syncretistic forms taken over by all the peoples that Rome subjugated and subsumed - which, by the way, is far more rational than any of the Abrahamic monotheisms, none of which can explain theodicy / justice of god - 'paganism' was never eschatological. —  Israel Palestine Blogs
  • The regime is Wahhabi, and considers its Islam pure, and that of the blacks in Darfur to be syncretistic and heretical, thus making the Darfurians licit to slaughter. —  Jihad Monitor
  • Unlike Sunni Kurds, the Alevis do not practice orthodox Islam, but instead follow a syncretistic amalgam of Shi'ism, Sufism and pre-Islamic beliefs. —  Jamestown Foundation: All Publications
  • It is a syncretistic movement with roots in pre-Christian times. —  GetReligion
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