A syncretism of material and immaterial theories.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I have studied much of the world sacred literature and syncretism is quite common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010] Reference

That all suggests a certain syncretism and perhaps even validation from the Lord Hisself who has simply stood by idly watching as Jimi chops down mountains and creates islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil?] Reference

He wants to avoid the syncretism, which is essentially saying your truth is as good as mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006] Reference

The final chapter of the Zhuangzi, ˜Below in the Empire,™ exemplifies this kind of syncretism in its analysis of early intellectual traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zhuangzi] Reference

Not so in Kerala, where "syncretism" seems to the catchword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradigm Shifted] Reference

And it is here especially that we notice the syncretism which is peculiar to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

Thus we may see in the myth an early example of that religious syncretism which is so characteristic of later Egyptian belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

He has been accused of “syncretism” and “unionism.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heresy charges on the increase: Protecting faith cited as motive] Reference

Had not a complacent syncretism engendered a multiplication of sects?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

It is more accepting of fluidity, cultural syncretism, and diversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Age, Israel, Identification | Jewschool] Reference

I shall try to indicate briefly what their share in the pagan syncretism was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

These latter are the two Magi of Shelleyan syncretism, Zoroaster and Pythagoras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference

So there's a definite example of syncretism see comment above re polytheistic religions.    From Wordnik.com.  [November recipe: Cinnamon apple pudding with hot fudge sauce] Reference

Reform and conservative rabbis would do better to avoid syncretism with the idolatry of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Even religions that exist side by side borrow elements from each other -- a process called syncretism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 2 of 6] Reference

Hemans's formal experiment with Shelleyan syncretism begins circa 1820 with Superstition and Revelation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference

And their thought often lent itself to relativism in dogma, tolerance of different ideas, and syncretism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Some other types of religions -- animism, syncretism, the combination of various beliefs -- did not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO'S MEETINGS IN VENEZUELA] Reference

By the fourteenth century, then, Joachist prophecy had become the umbrella for a syncretism of apocalyptic belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

At a time, when religions seem discrete, and polarized, I wanted to look deeper at this example of syncretism and hybridity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sufi Dargah: A Sacred Space in India For All Faiths (PHOTOS)] Reference

This is the result of Byzantine syncretism, carelessly and ignorantly grafted upon Arab ideas of the natural and the sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Yet another approach will demand both more and less from allegorical syncretism and will perhaps justify its endless prolixity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He ticked off a series of threats to orthodox Christianity -- Marxism, liberalism, radical individualism, syncretism, relativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2005] Reference

The world syncretism comes from the form of inculturation practiced byJudaeoCretins in which the m.o. is groupthink and corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue] Reference

This is an excellent example of the kind of Daoist syncretism Sima Tan describes and that survives in other early texts such as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zhuangzi] Reference

How did the barbaric ideas refine themselves and combine with each other when thrown into the fiery crucible of imperial syncretism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

In the 3rd Century the precursors, like the cult of Isis or Mithraism, helped open the space for Christianity's straddling syncretism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference

The Chaldean cosmology, which deified all elements but ascribed a predominant influence to the stars, ruled the entire Syrian syncretism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

It is not clear, however, that syncretism provided the start - ing point for Gnosticism rather than an environment in which it flourished.    From Wordnik.com.  [GNOSTICISM] Reference

Lyrically, Gil addresses a range of topics including African and Oriental culture, social inequality, religious syncretism, and technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropicalismo 2.0] Reference

But then, so is syncretism in general, and for that reason, in describing his own work, Dante used his term “polysemous,” or ambiguous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference