Do you know any religions that can be said to be a combination of two (or more) other religions?

Question

I got this idea from another question asked on here by someone who wanted to create a religion that combined Christianity and Islam. As it turns out a religion already existed that (sort of) combined the two - Baha'i Faith.

I was curious - are there other religions out there that can be said to be a combination of two (or more) religions? Like combination of Christianity & Buddhism, for example. It doesn't have to be perfect combinations (I don't think any religions can be said to simply be two other religions combined)... just religions that seem like they could have combined essential parts of other religions into one.

Answer 1

Im a Baha'i and The Baha'i faith is NOT a combination of Christianity and Islam , it is an update, like Islam is an update of Christianity, so is Christianity an update of The Jewish religion.
Here is the official site: http://www.bahai.org

Answer 2

Sikhism was formed to bring Hinduism and Islam together. Unfortunately it didn't work. Baha'i was created to find the common elements in all religions and bring them together. This didn't really work, either. In Japan, some people follow both Shintoism and some form of Buddhism, but they worship each, separately. Some Jewish people attempt to combine both Judaism & Christianity, but this idea has angered many Jewish people. Perhaps the closest we have come is that Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God but call him by different names; YHWH, God, Allah.

Answer 3

Baha'i is actually the last in a progression of steps that resulted in the religions of Adam, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Muhammad and The Bab. All these religions are from the same Source. The Revelation of Baha'u'llah started a new cycle.

Answer 4

There's the United Church of Canada, formed when a number of small congregations joined to become one. This is from their website:

"The United Church was inaugurated on June 10, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario, when the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, and 70 per cent of the Presbyterian Church in Canada entered into an organic union. Joining as well was the small General Council of Union Churches, centred largely in Western Canada."

But these are all Protestant denominations with small variations of liturgy and dogma, so it's not really a matter of different religions coming together.

Answer 5

Many religions are compilations of earlier religions.

1. Christianity- Judaism and Paganism

2. Neo Paganism-Western Paganism and Eastern Philosophy

3. Santeria-Catholicism and VooDoo

4. Cabalah-Judaism and Paganism

5. Messianic Judaism-Christianity and Judaism

6. Christian Wicca- Christianity and Neo Paganism

This is all I can think of off the top of my head.

Answer 6

Many branches of Christianity in Africa have incorporated elements from indigenous religions.

Also in the Caribbean, with a mixing of native, African and Christian beliefs and practices: Santeria, Voodoo...

Gnosticism, which still shows traces in some forms of Chrstianity also existed in non-Christian forms, so a degree of fusion/osmosis definitely occured.

(Never mind what is incorporated into a modern Western Christmas!)

Answer 7

Christianity, a combination of Judaism and Paganism. Just look at the Pagan roots of Christian holidays.

Answer 8

Baha'i is probably the most well known, unless you consider Christianity, though it wasn't a combo, but rather a spinoff of Judaism.

Answer 9

A lot of the pagans I know worship gods from pantheons ranging from Norse to Greek to Roman to Egyptian. Don't know if that's quite what you are looking for though.

Answer 10

Santeria