| These exogamous marriages introduced the possibility of idolatry and syncretistic practices into the community. |
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| It can be argued that formation of self-identity in general and religious identity in particular is inherently syncretistic. |
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| Eclecticism for Newman was primarily syncretistic, combining elements of Greek philosophy and other schools. |
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| Slave culture made possible the support of certain syncretistic elements that evolved naturally from the displacement process. |
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| All native peoples have opened up to others and adopted syncretistic elements. |
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| The third defense that the church used against the gnostics and syncretistic and charismatic movements within the church was the office of bishop, which became legitimized through the concept of apostolic succession. |
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| Meanwhile families from the prime minister's downwards are sending their youngsters to study abroad. So what shape will Vietnam's syncretistic economy take? |
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| Followers of Asian 20th-century neoreligions, neoreligious movements, radical new crisis religions, and non-Christian syncretistic mass religions. |
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| The philosophy tends to be a syncretistic mixture of Sankhya and Vedanta thought, with special and at times exclusive emphasis on the god's power, or shakti. |
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| Their followers were the semiliterate or illiterate classes socially below the tradition of orthodox Daoism, and their organization was similar to that of the syncretistic religions and of modern secret societies. |
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| In the 17th century, Georgius Calixtus began a rebellion against this practice, sparking the Syncretistic Controversy with Abraham Calovius as his main opponent. |
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