Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions
Sacred Creativity
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This short chapter critically evaluates the invention-of-tradition and syncretism concepts on the basis of ethnographic research findings gathered in the book. Taken together, these findings point to religion ...
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This chapter focuses on the creativity—sacred binomial. A review of reflections on the creativity concept testifies to its original religious root—from Greek myths and philosophy to Romantic ideas of how imagi...