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Examples of strongly syncretist [[Romanticism|Romantic]] and modern movements with some religious elements include [[mysticism]], [[occultism]], [[Theosophical Society]], modern [[astrology]], [[Neopaganism]], and the [[New Age]] movement.
 
Many of India’s estimated fifty million Pentecostals<ref name="Naim 2014 p. 133">{{cite book | last=Naim | first=M. | title=The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be | publisher=Basic Books | series=BusinessPro collection | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-465-06568-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JOLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT133 | access-date=2023-08-06 | page=133}}</ref> have syncretic blends with [[Indian religions]]. <ref name="Jeynes Robinson 2012 p. 564">{{cite book | last=Jeynes | first=W. | last2=Robinson | first2=D.W. | title=International Handbook of Protestant Education | publisher=Springer Netherlands | series=International Handbooks of Religion and Education | year=2012 | isbn=978-94-007-2387-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6QeBXdZBw0C&pg=PA564 | access-date=2023-08-06 | page=564}}</ref> In [[Réunion]], the [[Malbars]] practice at same time Hinduism and Christianity. but separately, not mixed (this is called "dual religious practice" in French "double pratique religieuse") but it's not considered as syncretism
 
The [[Unification Church]], founded by religious leader [[Sun Myung Moon]] in [[South Korea]] in 1954. Its teachings are based on the [[Bible]], but include new interpretations not found in mainstream Judaism and Christianity and incorporates East Asian traditions.<ref>George D. Chryssides, "Unificationism: A study in religious syncretism", Chapter 14 in ''Religion: empirical studies'', Editor: Steven Sutcliffe,