Shinto is sometimes called Japan's "indigenous" religion, but it may have originated in an animistic tradition that may be older than the Japanese islands …

Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a religion that originated in Japan.Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion.Scholars sometimes call its practitioners Shintoists, although adherents rarely use that term themselves.Shinto has no central authority in control, and much ...

Origins and History. Rites of Passage. Shinto Facts. Significance of Shinto. Traditions and Holy Days. Sitemap. Origins and History. Introduction. Shinto has been apart of Japanese culture ever since the first inhabitants of Japan occupied the countryin 500 …

The History of Shinto is the development of Shinto the traditional religion of Japan.. Although historians debate at what point it is suitable to refer to Shinto as a distinct religion, kami veneration has been traced back to Japan's Yayoi period (300 BC to AD 300). Buddhism entered Japan at the end of the Kofun period (AD 300 to 538) and spread rapidly. ...

22 Definition and History of Shinto Shinto Defined. Shinto , meaning ‘ way of the gods ,’ is the oldest religion in Japan.The faith has neither a founder nor prophets and there is no major text, which outlines its principal beliefs. The resulting flexibility in definition may well be one of the reasons for Shinto’s longevity, and it has, consequently, become so interwoven with Japanese ...

Sep 21, 2012 · Books on Shinto used to be scarce. Walk into a bookshop and you were lucky to find one at all. If you did, it would be Sokyo Ono’s Shinto (1962).The view it put forward was of a uniquely Japanese tradition that had existed in one form or another since time immemorial and which in Meiji times had been liberated from its Buddhist yoke to return to its original …

Shinto Defined. Shinto , meaning ‘ way of the gods ,’ is the oldest religion in Japan.The faith has neither a founder nor prophets and there is no major text, which outlines its principal beliefs. The resulting flexibility in definition may well be one of the reasons for Shinto’s longevity, and it has, consequently, become so interwoven with Japanese culture in general that it is almost ...