found: Social issues in America, [2006]:volume 2, page 496 (Syncretism. Worldviews and practices of groups or movements that are clearly borrowed from existing traditions)
found: Oxford dictionary of world religions, 1997:page 936 (Syncretism. The amalgamation of religious beliefs and practices in such a way that the original features of the religions in question become obscured)
found: Wikipedia, viewed April 18, 2019(Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought; involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions)
