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I was listening to a podcast and they hit me with "syncretic murder cult" and "hagiography" within minutes of each other.
Based on what I remember looking up a week ago:
Syncretic - a politics or religion that is composed of disparate sources mixed together.
Hagiography - a biography of a saint or a savior figure.
Those are both important words that admittedly I spent much of my life skimming over, just getting the vibe.
Hagiography is not uncommonly used sarcastically to describe a fawning biography.
Those ones are literally just normal, you'd have to just not have engaged with political-historical discourse at all in English to not have heard hagiography used to insult mainstream presidential retrospective articles at the very least.
My first assumption on hagiography was the study of eating