Syncretism - Blog Posts

Terno dos Reis, Henry John Drewal, January 5 1998. Madison Libraries Terno dos Reis (Day of the Kings) festivals are celebrated annually during the christmas season. The January 6th feast commemorates the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem bearing gifts for the Christ child. Brazilian celebrations include processions in which community members dress in costumes, dance, play music, and carry banners. This Terno festival took place on January 5, 1998 in Liberdade, Salvador.

hello!! im just wondering how does being both jewish and muslim work? genuine question and i hope i dont come across as rude!

(also nice to see another jewish alterhuman :3)

hii!! not rude at all dw :D also yippee i love meeting other jewish alterhumans as well <33 it's sort of hard to summarize tbh, since it depends on the specific topic! like for some things, i sort of take the "middle approach" between the typical jewish and muslim view (e.g. judaism rejects jesus, islam accepts him as a prophet/messenger and the messiah, and i say he was a prophet/messenger but not the messiah). but for other things, i kinda pick one or the other depending on which is more reasonable to me (e.g. pantheism, which is much more common in judaism than islam, makes more sense to me than thinking G-d is completely separate from creation like in mainstream islamic thought) and some things i'm still working out! such as what i think modesty standards are for me, what diet i should follow, etc it's been a slow but fun journey so far, and i learn new things every day! i hope that helped u to understand a little better :3

a common syncretism question

i get asked often how i syncretize judaism and islam (understandably!) but probably my least favorite "question" is when people say "well you can't syncretize that because X and Y beliefs are different." i fear people don't know that syncretism isn't just simultaneous practice of several beliefs but is indeed the forming of new beliefs/traditions from those original ones.

also, if religions A and B had no differing beliefs, they would be the same religion!! thus making syncretism impossible in the minds of some people. i respect the confusion but it gets so tiring to explain this specific thing lol