Cultures and Societies
Syncretism represented an avenue leading to cultural compromise: it provided opportunities for established beliefs, values, and customs to find a place within at the framework of a different cultural tradition, and by doing so; it enabled expansive traditions to win popular support in foreign lands.
Syncretism is often used to describe the product of the large-scale imposition of one alien culture, religion, or body of practices over another that is already present.
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