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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

The Politics of Religious Synthesis

by Charles Stewart and Rosalind Shaw · Charles Stewart and Rosalind Shaw (eds)

Essays examining how religious mixing happens and how people and institutions approve or reject it. The editors argue for studying syncretism as a social process rather than a judgement of purity. A key theoretical work.

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