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This is when a constructed fictional religion is clearly a mix of any number of real-world religions. An author will often use this by combining various interesting bits of existing religions, belief systems, and philosophies, and changing the names and places to make the new religion fictional.
Differs from [[Crossover Cosmology]] in that this creates a 'new' cosmology from pieces of established idea systems. Popular in [[Space Opera]] and [[Science Fiction]] as representative of alien cultures. A subtrope of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]. Can also be [[Truth in Television]] since there are few religions that don't share certain rituals or beliefs with other religions.
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Star Wars|The Force]], once described by Mark Hamill as "Religion's Greatest Hits!" The religion of the Force has strong elements of Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, Daoism and a bunch of other mystical traditions, with Christian symbology (the Jedi are [[Knight in Shining Armour|Knights In Brown Robes]] and not for nothing is the hero named [[Christianity|Luke]]).
** [[Translation Train Wreck|Backstroke of the West]] adds the Presbyterian Church, which "Allah Gold" is having some trouble joining.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series has the Global Standard Deity, a church that openly and shamelessly mixes and matches elements of various faiths.
* The end of the ''[[Pendragon]]'' series has Ravinia, in which people see life in the rest of the universe (Halla) for the first time. This is not a religion in itself, but something that attracts people regardless of religion into one group. On the other hand, it divides people based on social class.
* The far future religions in the ''[[Dune]]'' series are either this or the [[Coca
* The [[Videssos]] books, being chockablock with [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture
* In ''[[Life of Pi]],'' the title character manages to be a practicing Hindu, Christian, and Muslim all at once, to the confusion of most of the other characters.
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* The Church of Slag-Blah in ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' who are "militant agnostics" and celebrate a different religious holy day every day.
* In an [[Xkcd]] [http://xkcd.com/900/ strip], this discussion takes place:
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“… I don’t think that’s a thing.”
“Our rabbi swears it’s legit.” }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Sanshinto or Tritheism in ''[[Tasakeru]]'' is based primarily on Shinto, but has elements from Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology. The species' differing beliefs draw from ''everywhere''., even, [[Word of God|according to the author]], the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]
* The [[Chaos Timeline]] has the Indian Chandramoorthy develop his own religion, which combines elements from Hinduism, Islam, Catholicism and the classical Greco-Roman religion.
* Gamzee's religion in ''[[Homestuck]]'' seems to be based around fundamentalist and Rapturist Christianity, with a little Islam for flavour (he gets [[Berserk Button|very upset]] about seeing video depictions of his Messiahs), and perhaps with a little Judaism (his ancestor was responsible for the persecution of the [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|Troll Jesus]]), mixed up with [[The Stoner|stoner]]/[[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie]] culture, and then all applied to [[Juggalo]] fandom. A parody, obviously. {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] is that is was inspired by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] and his [[Manipulative Bastard]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]], arguably making it a [[Religion of Evil]].}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' plays with a somewhat joke-y version of this trope in the First Amalgamated Church, headed by Father Changstein El-Gamal. Supposedly created from the merging of major 20th Century religions - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism as well as agnosticism, and the logo shows it. Differs from more serious examples in that part of the joke appears to be that the Church doesn't have even a semi-coherent belief system and mostly just tries to be as generically 'spiritual-ish' as possible.
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* The only thing you can definitively say about Reverend Lovejoy's church in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is that it's some variety of Protestantism. In an episode where Bart and Homer convert to Catholicism, the Rev describes the One True Faith as being "the Western Branch of the Reformed Church of American Presbo-Lutheranism".
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* The proper term for this trope is [[wikipedia:Syncretism|Syncretism]]. As you can see, there are enough examples of it in [[Real Life]].
** In the 19th century, it was very common among scholars of world religions to gain a complete understanding of God by bringing the knowledge of all religions together to create a unified whole. While certainly admirable, religious authorities of all relgions where mostly unimpressed and didn't share the belief that other religions had anything to contribute to "their" already perfect models.
* [http://caricatura.ru/daily/korsun/360/ This] (text: "Basics of religious cultures and secular ethics") was a reaction on the introduction of this experimental "[[No Except Yes|obligatory facultative]]" school
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