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)