has anyone come up with a generalized theory of entryism, was reading about christianization of germans and realized it's broadly applicable
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you see things like hammer icons with crosses on them. raedwald of east anglia just straight up put an altar in a pagan temple
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exploit openness then close the tradition to further entry. compare christianization with twitter leveraging sms and restricting its own api
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this was quite typical of ancient polytheism; note how many of the Greek gods seem to have been imported during the...
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...Greek Dark Ages (e.g., discussion of Aphrodite in Burkert's _The Orientalizing Revolution_), Dionysos always portrayed as...
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...the 'god who arrives' - and goes on into classical times with Adonis. Also consider the tendency to see foreign gods with...
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...parallel functions as different aspects of the same entity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca …)
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Christianity was a sharp break mainly in its claims of exclusivity and universality.
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