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A syncretism is a mixture of influences. The term of syncretism comes from the Greek word which means “union of Crétois”. Initially applied to a warlike coalition, it extended to all forms from gathering from disparate doctrines.
Religion
The term is used especially in Histoire of the religions, to qualify confessions with whole share, but whose several components of origin are still recognizable. It is a religion whose doctrines or practices are a mixture of elements taken in various beliefs. One cannot deny with a syncretism the name of religion, since it is about a relation to the divine one. But, insofar as it is an individual construction, it places on a level very different from that of the religions revealed S which are, for the believers, the expression of a data of origin.
The concept of syncretism is sufficiently abstract to be applied to many traditions. Thus, the Sikhisme thus composes the Hindouisme and the Islam. The syncretic approach makes it possible to analyze the influences which constitute a religion, it must stop before losing what makes the identity of it. The religions of the Antiquité were very characterized by the syncretism, that it is of assimilation or association, returning the influences between very complex religions. The worship of Mithra associated with Apollon in the the Roman Pantheon is an example.
The cohabitation of the Buddhism and the Shintoïsme to the Japan since the 8th century is an excellent example of syncretism, always observable today. Indeed, on 128 inhabitant million whom account Japan, 106 state to practice Shintoïsme and 96 Buddhism. In the facts, the majority of the Japanese celebrate the marriages and the births following the rites shintoïstes and the funeral according to the Buddhist rites.
Moreover, one can find in the majority of the Japanese Buddhist temples a small sanctuary shintô and a small Buddhist furnace bridge in many sanctuaries shintô; size of the depend one always on the size of the other, obviously.
At the time modern, the Rencontre of Sitted of 1986 was taxeé of syncretism by some cardinals of the Vatican, although that was not the intention of the organizers.
Linguistics
In Linguistic, the term means fusion in only one element of several milked grammatical.relativemnt coherent “factitious meeting of ideas or theses of disparate origin” (André Lalande), which seeks to constitute a coherent system by a choice of various elements borrowed from Doctrine S varied and considered as preexistent in the human spirit. --> One distinguishes sometimes syncretism from eclecticism, bus of the amalgamated elements are not sorted, as well as Synthèse, because the mixed elements are still distingables.
Culturally
One speaks about cultural syncretism when a religious system (like known as previously) or philosophical tends to make amalgamate several different Doctrines.
At the time of a cultural coexistence at the total level, the syncretism is a cultural interbreeding, i.e., a true creation of new cultural units which find a new coherence starting from several different cultures.
Psychologically
Primitive stage of the childish vision characterized by an apprehension total, undifferentiated, outside world and of its relations with him.
Physically
In Quantum physics the syncretism tries to link idealistic philosophy, and materialist. The idea is to consider a major reality in which the spirit and the matter are confused.
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