| Summary: | HELMER RINGGREN The Problems of Syncretism ÅKE HULTKRANTZ Pagan and Christian Elements in the Religious Syncretism among the Shoshoni Indians of Wyoming OLOF PETTERSSON Foreign Influences on the Idea of God in African Religions. Some Remarks on a Great Problem ODD NORDLAND Valhall and Helgafell, Syncretistic Traits of the Old Norse Religion LILY WEISER-AALL Syncretism in Nordic Folk Medicine: Critical Periods during pregnancy GUNNAR SJÖHOLM Les limites entre la religion et la culture à l'occasion de l'interprétation de la religion chinoise antique HARRY THOMSEN Non-Buddhist Buddhism and Non-Christian Christianity in Japan CARL GUSTAV D IEHL Replacement or Substitution in the Meeting of Religions ARVID S. KAPELRUD Israel's Prophets and their Confrontation with the Canaanite Religion J. VAN DIJK Les contacts ethniques dans la Mésopotamie et les syncrétismes de la religion sumérienne JAN BERGMAN Beitrag zur Interpretatio Graeca: Ägyptische Götter in griechischer Übertragung ERIC SEGELBERG Old and New Testament Figures in Mandaean Version ÅKE V. STRÖM Tradition und Tendenz, Zur Frage des christlich-vorchristlichen Synkretismus in der nordgermanischen Literatur SVEN S. HARTMAN Les identifications de Gayömart au temps islamique That which happens when two religions meet is obviously different from case to case. It is possible for two "organized" religions to exist side by side for centuries without any exchange taking place. But otherwise, we are obviously moving along a continuum, the one pole of which is the repression of one of the two religions, the other a complete fusion of them. From another point of view, the results of syncretism may be grouped according to the degree in which the foreign elements are felt as essential or less essential. On this broad definition, the topic before us is vast. As a matter of fact few religions are totally "pure" or homogeneous and free from elements of syncretism or traces of an encounter with other religions.
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