Editing Syncretism (section)

=== Enlightenment ===
The syncretic [[deism]] of [[Matthew Tindal]] undermined Christianity's claim to uniqueness.<ref name="Harding 1995 p. ">{{cite book | last=Harding | first=A.J. | title=The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism | publisher=University of Missouri Press | series=Tall Buildings and Urban Environment | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-8262-1007-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ie1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22matthew+tindal%22+%22syncretism%22+%22deism%22 | access-date=2023-02-11 | page=}}</ref> The modern, rational, non-pejorative connotations of syncretism arguably date from [[Denis Diderot]]'s {{lang|fr|[[Encyclopédie]]}} articles ''Eclecticisme'' and ''Syncrétistes, Hénotiques, ou Conciliateurs''. Diderot portrayed syncretism as the concordance of eclectic sources.  Scientific or legalistic approaches of subjecting all claims to [[critical thinking]] prompted at this time much literature in Europe and the Americas studying non-European religions such as Edward Moor's ''[[The Hindu Pantheon]]'' of 1810, much of which was almost evangelistically appreciative by embracing spirituality and creating the space and tolerance in particular [[disestablishmentarianism|disestablishment of religion]] (or its stronger form, official secularisation as in France) whereby believers of [[Spiritualism (beliefs)|spiritualism]], [[agnosticism]], [[atheism|atheists]] and in many cases more innovative or pre-Abrahimic based religions could promote and spread their belief system, whether in the family or beyond.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}