The way of the kami: shrine worship, purity, and festival, woven into the life of Japan's communities and its imperial house.
Shinto names the shrine traditions of Japan, carried by priests and parishioners at tens of thousands of shrines, and reshaped more than once by the state. This tree models its shrine mainstream, its sects, and its historical forms as first-class entities.
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Jinja Shinto
Shrine Shinto, the mainstream: the tens of thousands of shrines, their priests and festivals, coordinated since 1946 by the Association of Shinto…
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Sect Shinto
The thirteen recognized sects, most founded by nineteenth-century teachers, which organize devotion as denominations beside the shrines.
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Folk Shinto
The unwritten Shinto of household altars, local festivals, and the kami of place, which no registry counts and every community keeps.
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State Shinto
The state-ordered form of the Meiji and war years, when the shrines stood as public institutions of the empire; dissolved as a state system in 1945.
Shinto across the site
Prayers & Creeds (1) · Devotion (3) · History of Worldviews (16) · Traditions (1) · Languages (1) · Religious Art Entries (2) · Calendar Events (4)
Sources
Primary
- The Kojiki (712).
Secondary
- Helen Hardacre, Shinto: A History (2017).