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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like the strategy of an exclusive tradition infiltrating/syncretizing with an inclusive one and then regularizing on its own lines
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some historian alleged german polytheism was open enough that if praying to odin didn't work hey why not give christ a try
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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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so is breeding more vicious hegemonizing swarms a *bad* reason to do inclusive society? asking for a friend
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