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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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No references found	Since European racialism developed at the ground-level within dynamic borderland contexts like cultural syncreticism, international political rivalries, and transatlantic commerce, it is questionable whether crucial issues connected to racial ideologies--most notably, the rise, expansion, and eventual abolition of African slavery--can be reasonably divorced from the social relations of power throughout the Atlantic World and approached instead mainly as intellectual problems. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic ... by Marler, Scott P. / Journal of Social History we need to give our student at least a rudimentary introduction to the nature of the New Christianity--its size, influence and variety--as well as strategies for identifying and critically working with allusions, hybridity, and syncreticism. Preface by Osa, Osayimwense / Journal of African Children's and Youth Literature 23) I use the adjective 'clumsy' in conceding with Valente that if syncreticism was Stoker's actual intention, it was, as with his previous novel The Snake's Pass, 'an act of literary apprenticeship' (24) and yet it possibly saved Stoker the vilification, and indeed imprisonment, some other Irish writers and activists were unable to avoid. Envisioning an indulgence: Dracula (1897) & Van Helsing (2004) by Starrs, D. Bruno / Traffic (Parkville)	synchronous system Synchronous Telegraph synchronous time-division multiplexing synchronous timing synchronous transmission synchronous vibrator synchronous working Synchrony synchrophasotron synchroscope synchrotron synchrotron process Synchrotron Radiation Synchrotron, Electron Synchrotron, Proton synchysite synclastic synclinal axis synclinal valley Syncline Synclinorium SyncML Syncom Syncopation Syncope Syncreticism Syncretism syncronous syncrude syncytial trophoblast syncytiotrophoblast Syncytium Syndactyly Syndesmology syndesmosis syndet Syndic syndicalism Syndicate syndication format syndiotactic polymer Syndrome syndromes syndromic hearing loss syndynamics Syndyne Synecdoche Syneclise Synecology Synentognathi Syneresis	syncopation syncopations syncopations syncopator syncopators syncope syncope syncope Syncope (medicine) Syncope (medicine) Syncope (medicine) Syncope/vertigo syncophantic syncopic syncopic syncopic Syncopist Syncopize Syncopy Syncopy Syncopy SYNCOSYR Syncotyledonous SYNCR syncretic syncretic Syncretic religion Syncretic religion syncretic thinking syncretical Syncreticism syncretisation syncretisation syncretise syncretise syncretised syncretised syncretises syncretises syncretising syncretising syncretism syncretism Syncretisms Syncretisms syncretist syncretist syncretistic syncretistic Syncretistic Strife Syncretistic Strife syncretistical Syncretists Syncretists syncretization syncretization syncretize syncretize syncretized syncretized syncretizes

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Since European racialism developed at the ground-level within dynamic borderland contexts like cultural syncreticism, international political rivalries, and transatlantic commerce, it is questionable whether crucial issues connected to racial ideologies--most notably, the rise, expansion, and eventual abolition of African slavery--can be reasonably divorced from the social relations of power throughout the Atlantic World and approached instead mainly as intellectual problems.

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic ... by Marler, Scott P. / Journal of Social History

we need to give our student at least a rudimentary introduction to the nature of the New Christianity--its size, influence and variety--as well as strategies for identifying and critically working with allusions, hybridity, and syncreticism.

Preface by Osa, Osayimwense / Journal of African Children's and Youth Literature

23) I use the adjective 'clumsy' in conceding with Valente that if syncreticism was Stoker's actual intention, it was, as with his previous novel The Snake's Pass, 'an act of literary apprenticeship' (24) and yet it possibly saved Stoker the vilification, and indeed imprisonment, some other Irish writers and activists were unable to avoid.

Envisioning an indulgence: Dracula (1897) & Van Helsing (2004) by Starrs, D. Bruno / Traffic (Parkville)

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