Phrases with «syncretistic»

Sentences with «syncretistic»

  • This leads us back to the «moderate» assertion that the service was not syncretistic because the clerics gathered to express moral, not theological, agreement. (firstthings.com)
  • Some of these details are innocent and rooted in tradition; others are significant aberrations to the Christmas story, making December 25 one of the most syncretistic events on the Christian calendar. (relevantmagazine.com)
  • In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering. (theatlantic.com)
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