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Syncretism

(1) The absence of differentiation that characterizes an undeveloped state of certain phenomena. Examples are art during the initial stages of human culture, when music, singing, poetry, and the dance were not distinguished from one another, and a child’s mental functions during the early stages of its development.

(2) The blending or inorganic merging of heterogeneous elements. An example is the merging of different cults and religious systems in late antiquity— the religous syncretism of the Hellenistic period.

(3) In philosophy, syncretism denotes a variant of eclecticism.

Syncretism

in linguistics, the merging of once formally distinct grammatical categories or meanings into one form, which, as a result, becomes polysemous or polyfunctional. In Latin, for example, syncretism in the case system led to a combining of the functions of the instrumental and locative cases in the ablative case. Syncretism can occur not only in the morphology but also in the syntax of a language. The concept of syncretism is paradigmatic, differing from the syntagmatic neutralization of oppositions. Syncretism is an irreversible systemic shift in the process of the development of a language; neutralization is a living process associated with the use of linguistic units in speech.

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This development brought about religious syncretism because those who were converted to Islam and Christianity still held on to some of the traditional religious beliefs.

SOCIAL CHANGE AND CRISIS OF NAME IDENTITY IN YORUBA RELIGIOUS ... by DR J.K.AYANTAYO / Relationships community

He takes a new look at this religious syncretism or fusion, mainly from the perspective of paganism and dualism, and so compares Christianity's encounter with other pagan cultures, specifically the Aztecs, Incas, Chinese, and Japanese.

The impact of Christianity on colonial Maya, ancient Mexico, China, ... by Reference & Research Book News

Ironically, the Morisco forgeries succeeded so well because Granada's mainstream Christian population, while largely indifferent to the religious syncretism and cultural Arabism in the plomos, found their historical content useful for their own, entirely different, cultural needs.

From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early ... by van Liere, Katherine Elliot / Renaissance Quarterly

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