Syncretism is a compound of heterogeneous elements within the same conceptual system

Syncretism – this compound (synkretismos – blending, merging) of heterogeneous elements. The concept of the psychology, culture and art. You can often hear about its children, religious (or religious cult) and primitive thinking (primitive culture).

Children's Church

In the psychology of children of preschool age syncretism – is the ability to integrated perception of various concepts and categories together are not related. Due to lack of information about the world the child builds their models. In these constructions the objective when the subjective substituted, instead of the knowledge used experience. In the first years of life the child is not accustomed to logical constructions and, therefore, his arguments are sometimes illogical even for his own conceptual system.

Religious syncretism

With Regard to the religious (mythological) thinking syncretism – the combination in one mind of the dogmas (often conflicting) from different religious schools, as well as of objective reality with mythological description of the world. At least syncretic teachings that have survived for centuries without outside influences. Syncretic Christianity, which are the canonized old and New Testaments. Even more syncretic Russian Orthodoxy where Christianity is closely merged with pagan ideas. The mixing of peoples and, as a consequence of cultural traditions in the modern world makes religious ideas more syncretic. The emergence in the past hundred years, a huge number of various sects, schools, occult currents is partly due to the desire of religious people prone to reflection, to create a consistent logical description of the world and to resolve inner conflict.

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Artistic syncretism

The Confluence of cultures and traditions also gives rise to the syncretism in art, which for centuries has moved towards increasingly narrow specialization. Contemporary artist/writer/musician to narrow the scope of one form, one genre. New works are born at the crossroads of different cultures, of different genres and types of art.

Primitive syncretism

Not quite right to liken children's thinking primitive. For lack of objective knowledge of primitive human nature to mythologize the reality, but the rest of his thinking is much more rational than many of our contemporaries. Otherwise it simply will not survive. In primitive thinking syncretism – the whole perception of the world in which the individual distinguishes himself or from own community or from nature in General. Hence, the most ancient prototypes of religions-animism, totemism. Within the community there is almost no separation of functions, there is no professional specialization. Each multifunctional. Illustration of such functionality is the syncretism of primitive art: dance, singing, playing a musical instrument, iconic figures combined into a single ritual event, which takes the whole tribe, is inseparable from the mythology and from the solution of practical problems (healing the sick, success in hunting, etc.).