New Religious Movements and Syncretism in Tribal Cultures

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The spectrum of forms provided by new religious movements arising in the interaction between Christianity and the primal religions offers special insights into syncretic processes. The series of changes represent stages —each indispensable to conversion but each insufficient in itself and an obstacle if it becomes terminal. In the dimension of world-views there is affinity with primal religions at the ontological level but major cosmological differences. Here there are syncretic stages in the changes towards a contingent view of the universe, the new ways to control power and to view time, in the development of an open society, and in the internalization of evil as individual sin.

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