Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Book notes on Shinto

(Originally written March 27, 2007 in Book 15)

A Tapestry of Faiths
Win Corduan

12: Shinto

Origin - Japanese traditional religion with no definitive origin

Essential beliefs and practices

- A system of practices, not doctrines, veneration of the Kami (spiritual reality)

Scriptures

- Kojiki, Nihongi, Amatsu Norito

Major Contemporary Divisions

- State, Shrine, Domestic and Sectarian. Other Shinto is fused with Buddhism.


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