Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places

Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places


In Japan, two religions predominate--Buddhism and Shintoism--and the Japanese people see no contradiction in practicing both: worshipping Buddha even as they revere the kami, the divine beings that populate the country and define the indigenous faith of Shintoism. In Shintoism and the Religions of Japan, C. Scott Littleton illuminates this unusual spiritual pluralism and shows how it has fertilized a vast and varied religious

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