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Conflation vs Theocrasy - What's the difference?

conflation | theocrasy |

As nouns the difference between conflation and theocrasy

is that conflation is (countable) a blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry while theocrasy is interaction, admixture, and conflation of divine principles.

conflation

English

Noun

  • (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • (countable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

    • theocrasy

    English

    Noun

  • Interaction, admixture, and conflation of divine principles.
  • * 2007 : Isaac Bonewits, Neopagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work , chapter 1: “Defining Our Terms”, page 3 (first edition; Llewellyn; ISBN 9780738711997)
    • Duotheism''1 (two deities) is what Neopagans call a religion in which the duotheologians claim that there are two deities, usually of opposite gender, and that all other spirits are aspects or faces of these two, through a process known as ''theocrasy 2 (deity mingling).

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse this word with its homophone and homeograph theocracy.Neopagan Rites by Isaac Bonewits (2007, first edition, Llewellyn, ISBN 9780738711997), endnote 2

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