As the examples show, syncretism is used as a term of abuse against New Age, by Christian fundamentalists. The term syncretism is already used in cultural anthropology, to describe cultural processes. In this cultural sense, syncretism is used along with transculturalism or inter-culturalism. There is therefore a normative syncretism emerging. That is, people use the term, to indicate something which should happen - in their view.
Cultural syncretism is a primary form of syncretism, increasingly important in cultural politics.
This is not simply academic and media fashion. It is an intensification of a vision of the world as a series of cultures. Unquestioning, uncritical, acceptance of interculturality in this course. Oneworld - One World, One People . There is also a cultural pan-syncretism, which promotes a global culture derived from fusion of existing cultures.