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syncretic

blending or reconciling different forms of belief or practice

Sightings:

The world's oldest religion

Land of the Joget and the Keroncong
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Two brains are better than one
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Multicultural symbols

Carnival in Bahia

What to see in Agra

The sands of Bahrain yield treasures
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Where the sacred meets the profane, and the saint knows how to party

Klezmer, free jazz, and proto-metal
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Marguerite Duras, champion of the humiliated and the hurt

Pentagrams through the ages

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