Author: Hartman, Sven S., editor:
Title: Syncretism : Based on Papers read at the Symposium on Cultural Contact, Meeting of Religions, Syncretism..,.1966
Description: Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, (1969). orig.wrappers. 294 pp,, 25x16cm, Series: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, III. Some spotting to cover.. Minor rubbing, inscribed by editor on half-title, VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: H. Ringgren "The Problems of Syncretism"; A. Hultkrantz "Pagan & Christian Elements in the Religious Syncretism among the Shoshoni Indians of Wyoming"; O. Pettersson "Foreign Influences on the Idea of God in African Religions. Some Remarks on a Great Problem"; O. Nordland "Valhall & Helgafell. Syncretistic Traits of the Old Norse Religion"; L. Weiser-Aall "Syncretism in Nordic Folk Medicine: Critical Periods during Pregnancy"; G. Sjoholm "Les limites entre la religion et la culture a l'occasion de l'interpretation de la religion chinoise antique"; H. Thomsen "Non-Buddhist Buddhism & Non-Christian Christianity in Japan"; C.G. Diehl "Replacement or Substitution in the Meeting of Religions"; A.S. Kapelrud "Israel's Prophets & their Confrontation with the Canaanite Religion";J. Van Dijk "Les contacts ethniques dans la Mesopotamie et les syncretismes de la religion sumerienne"; J. Bergman "Beitrag zur Interpretatio Graeca: Agyptische Gotter in griechischer Ubertragung"; E. Segelberg "Old & New Testament Figures in Mandaean Version"; A.V. Strom " Tradition & Tendenz: Zur Frage des christlich-vorchristlichen Synkretismus in der nordgermanischen Literatur"; S.S. Hartman "Les identifications de Gayomart au temps islamique".

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Religious Sociology, History of Religion, Religion, Syncretic, Culture Contact, Anthropology, Syncretism,