School
Shinto
Overview
a polytheistic and animistic religion originating in Japan
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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He points out that, until recent times, the religion of Japan was Buddhism, to the practical exclusion of every other. There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely. But it is only during the last forty years or so that Shinto has been erected into a State religion, and has been reconstructed so as to suit modern requirements.[48] It is, of course…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
States what Shinto is; names Shinto twice.
At a lecture I listened to yesterday, a Japanese woman, close to thirty, was pointed out to me as about to get married to an American architect here. There are exceptions, but this case is evidently a famous romance. The lecture was on Social Aspects of Shinto; Shinto is the official cult though not the established religion of Japan. Although nothing is said that wasn't scientifically a matter of course to be…
John Dewey, Letters from China and Japan
States what Shinto is; names Shinto twice.
But only a desperate situation could have justified their educational methods, which would have been culpable in any nation not in imminent peril. The Shinto religion, which must not be called in question even by university professors, involves history which is just as dubious as Genesis; the Dayton trial pales into insignificance beside the theological tyranny in Japan. There is an equal ethical tyranny…
Bertrand Russell, Education and the good life
Names Shinto.
Philosophers who discussed Shinto
- Islam
- Wang Yangming
- Hayashi Razan
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Yamaga Sokō
- Yamazaki Ansai
- Kaibara Ekken
- Tominaga Nakamoto
- Ninomiya Sontoku
- Ishida Baigan
Related ideas
- Book of Rites
- Hinduism
- Animism
- Heian period
- Japan
- Japanese language
- Edo period
- Saṃsāra
- Cremation
- Immortality
- Empire of Japan
- Environmentalism
- Metaphysics
- Anthropomorphism
- Seoul
- Polytheism
- New religious movement
- UNESCO
- Oracle
- Chinese Buddhism
- Mediumship
- Omnipotence
- Omniscience
- -ism
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.