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Editors Stewart and Strathern (anthropology, University of Pittsburgh) select articles in which, for the most part, the authors study the syncretization of Christianity with traditional religious beliefs.
15) Combined with the mid-century tendency toward a new conception of modesty, it represents a fruitful syncretization by reconciling opposed civilizational precepts: Rigorous, "regimental" homogenization was positioned as a corrective to the dismissive ethnocentricity of Westerners that makes nakedness the image of the wild/undisciplined.
One theory is that the Holy Week rituals in the southwestern United States stem from the syncretization of Catholic and Jewish traditions.
 
 
 
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