(The Conversation) — An anthropologist of Japanese religion met followers of Shinto religion online and found how they were building a community and sharing instructions on practice.

This article explores the part Shinto has played in Japanese life and culture throughout the country's history, and its shared its spiritual, cultural, and political roles with Buddhism and ...

Religion and politics Shinto and nationalism Japanese flags ©. Shinto can't be separated from Japan and the Japanese, but in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries Shinto became an ...

Shinto, once an unwritten tradition rooted in nature, shrines, and ancestral worship, wasn’t always classified as a “religion.” This video traces how Japan’s native spiritual practice was reshaped ...

Shinto is one of Japan’s two major religions, along with Buddhism. Like many religious traditions, Shinto can have different meanings for people . For some, it is the central faith of the ...

Drawing on Shinto, sci-fi and traditional Japanese folk, Kuunatic are one of metal's most fascinating new bands ...

The Bloomsbury Shinto Series, created and edited by Fabio Rambelli, a UC Santa Barbara professor of religious studies and of East Asian languages and cultural studies, has published its first book in ...

Besides purification, Shinto also provides what contemporary Japanese religion experts Ian Reader and George Tanabe Jr. call “practical benefits.” These innumerable benefits include good ...