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"Studying the history of syncretism's use indicates wider interpretative problems in religious studies and theology regarding race and revelation. It also indicates the importance of seeing "tradition" as adaptive and amalgamating rather than static. In theology and religious studies alike, discourses of syncretism are positioned within racialized perceptions which construct a center and periphery based upon white European knowledge. In Christian theology more specifically, syncretism's use also shows ways that theologians try to protect the category of divine revelation from human interference, leading to interpretative problems that sidestep material history"--

Syncretism (Religion) --- Christianity and other religions --- Eclecticism (Religion) --- Religious syncretism --- Unionism (Religion) --- Religion --- Religions --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Relations --- History --- 291.161 --- 291.161 Syncretisme. Vermenging van verschillende godsdiensten --- Syncretisme. Vermenging van verschillende godsdiensten --- Christianity and other religions.