Strategic religious participation in a shared religious landscape

The concept of strategic religious participation in a shared religious landscape was developed to describe the way that multiple religious borders are naturally crossed within the Chinese cultural world. However, it seems to potentially relate to some practices found today in the Western context. Although this is often dismissed by Western scholars as some form of illicit syncretism or multiple religious belonging, the global context suggests that we should not see religious borders as essentially fixed and impermeable, but rather as negotiable, flexible, and open to strategic crossings and identities.