| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Syncretism Happens -- What Is Religion? -- Soft Boundaries -- When Syncretism Is a Good Thing -- ... And When It's Not So Good -- When It Should Have Happened, But Didn't -- The Problem of Labels: What Is It Now? -- Critical Openness -- The Last Taboo: Education about Religion -- An Intellectual Transformation. |
| Summary |
"The religious studies discipline has traditionally distinguished between two responses to syncretism: a subjective view, which treats syncretism as morally reprehensible, and an objective view, which treats it as a morally neutral phenomenon. William Harrison adopts a third perspective, the advocacy view, which claims that mixing religions is a good and necessary process. He cites countless examples--such as Islam's transformative encounter with Greek thought--from both history and recent years to show how religious traditions have gained theological and practical wisdom by borrowing key ideas, beliefs, and practices from outside their own movements."--Publishers website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Syncretism (Religion)
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Syncretism (Religion) |
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Religions -- Relations.
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Religions -- Relations. |
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Religion.
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Religion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: In praise of mixed religion. (CaOONL)20149006918 |
| ISBN |
9780773592025 (electronic book) |
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0773592024 (electronic book) |
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9780773543584 |
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0773543589 |
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9780773592032 |
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0773592032 |
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