Not exact matches
Any religion, especially an immanent incarnate tradition is going to be
more susceptible to cultural
syncretism.
So far as Gandhi was concerned, it was towards a
syncretism of mystic Hindu spirituality with the self - giving and suffering love of Jesus the Crucified Messiah producing the politics of nonviolence aimed at a secular nation - state based
more or less on inter-religious understanding and the decentralized socialism of Sarvodaya.
I'd refer you to the Wikipedia article on
syncretism for
more information.
If this happened in the face of a victory as complete as Islam's over Arabia, how much
more would such
syncretism take place when, as in Israel's case in Palestine, the Canaanites could not be utterly conquered but, sustained and empowered, so current beliefs would suggest, by their native gods, lived on with the Israelites!
As with the back and forth between writing and translating, a similar
syncretism happens when working in
more than one genre.
On this grey afternoon, there could be nothing
more wonderful than sharing the work of Cuban - American painter Cesar Santos who has recreated iconic paintings with a modern twist for his series called
Syncretism.
One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward
more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural
syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.