Shinto - Simple Guides

By: Ian Reader

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Paperback | 23 March 2006 | Edition Number 1

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This book will help you to:

Appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life.
To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.
To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.
To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.

Access the world's religions with Simple Guides: Religion a series of concise, accessible introductions to the world's major religions.

Written by experts in the field, they offer an engaging and sympathetic description of the key concepts, beliefs, and practices of different faiths. Ideal for spiritual seekers and travellers alike, Simple Guides aims to open the doors of perception. Together the books provide a reliable compass to the world's great spiritual traditions, and a point of reference for further exploration and discovery.

By offering essential insights into the core values, customs, and beliefs of different societies, they also enable visitors to be aware of the cultural sensibilities of their hosts, and to behave in a way that fosters mutual respect and understanding.

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Map of Japan	p. 9
Preface	p. 10
Introduction	p. 16
Terms for Shinto Shrines	p. 19
Torii - the Shinto Gateway	p. 19
Meiji Jingu Shrine	p. 20
New Year's Festival	p. 23
What Shinto Is Not!	p. 25
Shinto and its Japanese Setting	p. 28
Absorbing External Influences	p. 30
Shinto: An Indigenous Religion?	p. 30
Shinto: A Modern Phenomenon?	p. 32
Early Japanese Religion and Entry of Buddhism	p. 35
Threat of New Gods and Triumph of Buddhism	p. 37
Development and Meaning of Word 'Shinto'	p. 38
Ideograms for Word 'Shinto'	p. 39
Kami, Myths and Meanings	p. 40
Forms of Kami	p. 43
Relationship of Humans and Kami	p. 46
Some Important Kami in Shinto Tradition	p. 48
Shinto Foundation Myths	p. 50
Story of Izanagi and Izanami	p. 53
Heavenly Siblings: Story of Amaterasu and Susanoo	p. 55
Myths of Imperial Descent	p. 58
Basic Themes of Shinto	p. 60
Maintaining Life in This World	p. 61
Religious Practice and Purification	p. 62
Shinto in Japanese Religious History	p. 64
Shinto-Buddhist Interactions	p. 64
Todaiji Temple	p. 65
Watarai Shinto	p. 70
Meiji Restoration and Shinto	p. 71
Post-War Era and Shinto Disestablishment	p. 73
Dynamics of Japanese Religious World	p. 75
Shinto Shrines	p. 73
Types and Structures of Shrines	p. 81
Signs of the Sacred	p. 82
Shimenawa - Sacred Rope	p. 84
Shrine Buildings and Inner Sanctuaries	p. 85
Important Shrines and Locations	p. 86
October 'Meeting of Kami'	p. 90
Shrine Animals	p. 90
Shrine Officiants	p. 91
Life-Cycles, Festivals and Rituals	p. 94
Yearly Cycle of Events	p. 97
Important Life-Cycle Rituals and Festivals	p. 98
Festivals: Matsuri	p. 100
Tanabata Festival, Sendai	p. 103
Shinto Rituals	p. 104
Praying to the Kami	p. 107
Prayers and Communications with the Kami	p. 108
Turning to the Gods	p. 108
Sincerity and Gratitude	p. 111
Objects and their Meanings	p. 113
Ema	p. 114
Omamori and Fuda	p. 117
Hamaya	p. 118
Symbolic Meanings	p. 119
Cyclicality	p. 120
Shinto, Nationalism and Yasukuni Shrine	p. 122
Yasukuni Shrine	p. 122
Political Manoeuvres and Opposition	p. 125
Shinto in the Modern World	p. 130
An Uneven Picture	p. 132
Rise and Challenge of New Religions	p. 134
An Unclear Future	p. 136
Glossary	p. 138
Further Reading	p. 141
Index	p. 142
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