Syncretism in religion : a reader - Leopold, Anita M.; Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951- (London : Equinox, 2004)
The historical background of the term syncretism: the problem of definition -- In praise of syncretism: the beginnings of Christianity conceived in the light of a diagnosis of modern culture / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Syncretism / Hendrik Kraemer -- Syncretism and the history of religions / Robert D. Baird -- Syncretism and ambiguity / Michael Pye -- Syncretism: from theological invective to a concept in the study of religion / Kurt Rudolph -- Syncretism: the dynamics of religion -- The dynamism of religions. Syncretism. Mission / Gerardus van der Leeuw -- Syncretism and dialogue: a philosophical analysis / Hendrik M. Vroom -- Problems of religious syncretism / Roger Bastide -- Religions in contact: power, syncretism and creolization -- Herskovits's heritage: rethinking syncretism in the African diaspora / Andrew Apter -- The Caribbean: marvelous cradle-hammock and painful cornucopia / Carlos Guillermo Wilson -- Syncretism and legitimacy in Latin American religion / Gustavo Benavides -- Syncretism, power, play / André Droogers -- Worlds in collusion: on social strategies and misrepresentations as forces of syncretism in Euro-American and Native American affairs / Armin W. Geertz -- Category problems and theoretical suspense -- Relocating syncretism in social science discourse / Charles Stewart -- Syncretism, historicism, and cognition: a response to Michael Pye / Luther H. Martin -- The Concept of 'syncretism': an instrument of historical insight/discovery? / Ulrich Berner -- Current approaches to syncretism in the study of religion -- Orthosyncretism: an account of melding in religion / Timothy Light -- Religious tendencies in Greece at the dawn of the twenty-first century: an approach to contemporary Greek reality / Panayotis Pachis -- Medicine-men, modernity and magic: syncretism as an explanatory category to recent religious responses and magical practices among urban Blacks in contemporary South Africa / Kirstine Munk.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Syncretism (Religion).