Shintoism

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Shintoism

• By Drew Brackett, Austin Frueh, and Jesus Valdez

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The Numbers

• 3-4 million are Shintos
• No founder
• No official sacred scriptures
• No fixed creeds
• Indigenous religious beliefs and practices of
  Japan

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Facts about Shintoism

• The word Shinto, which comes from the Chinese
  shin tao, meaning "the way of kami
• Now is a Japanese indigenous religion
• Polytheism based on the kami, ancient gods or
  spirits

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History

• new religious movements emerged out of the social
  classes
• new religious movements were based mostly on
  individual religious experiences and aimed at
  healing diseases or spiritual salvation and
  unrest of the people

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Sects

• Revival Shinto sects Izumo-oyashiro-kyo (or
  Taisha-kyo), Shinto-taikyo, Shinri-kyo
• Confucian sects Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto
  Taisei-kyo
• Purification sects Shinshu-kyo, Misogi-kyo
• Mountain worship sects Jikko-kyo, Fuso-kyo, On
  take-kyo (or Mitake-kyo)
• "Faith-healing" sects Kurozumi-kyo, Konko-kyo,
  Tenri-kyo

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Beliefs

• beliefs in the mysterious creating and
  harmonizing power (musubi) of kami and in the
  truthful way (makoto) of kami
• The nature of kami cannot be fully explained in
  words, because kami transcends the cognitive
  faculty of man

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Practices

• Ceremonies
• To appeal to the benevolent treatment and
  protection
• Consist of abstinence
• Offerings
• Prayers
• Purification

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Family Ceremonies

• Traditional family has 2 family altars
• Shinto, for their tutelary kami and the goddess
  Amaterasu Omikami
• Buddhist, for the family ancestors.
• Pure Shinto families
• Ceremonies and services in Shinto style

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Services

• No weekly services
• 1st and 15th of each month or on festival days
• Visit shrine at own convenience
• Some really devoted people visit every morning
  but it is not required

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Shinto Shrines

• home of the kami
• inner sanctuary (most important part
• shintai ("kami body") or mitama-shiro ("divine
  spirit's symbol") is in there
• Usual symbol is a mirror
• Torii at entrance

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Works Cited

• http//en.wikipedia.org
• http//mb-soft.com
• http//www.greatcom.org
• www.religionfacts.com