Syncretism

Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogize several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, and thus assert an underlying unity.

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Syncretism is also common in literature, music, the representational arts and other expressions of culture. (Compare the concept of eclecticism.)

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