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Content
- Front Cover
- Front Flip
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Contents
- Map of Japan
- Preface
- Introduction
- Terms for Shinto Shrines
- Torii - the Shinto Gateway
- Meiji Jingu- Shrine
- New Year's Festival
- What Shinto Is Not!
- 1 Shinto and its Japanese Setting
- Absorbing External Influences
- Shinto: An Indigenous Religion?
- Shinto: A Modern Phenomenon?
- Early Japanese Religion and Entry of Buddhism
- Threat of New Gods and Triumph of Buddhism
- Development and Meaning of Word 'Shinto'
- Ideograms for Word 'Shinto'
- 2 Kami, Myths and Meanings
- Forms of Kami
- Relationship of Humans and Kami
- Some Important Kami in Shinto Tradition
- Shinto Foundation Myths
- Story of Izanagi and Izanami
- Heavenly Siblings: Story of Amaterasu and Susanoo
- Myths of Imperial Descent
- Basic Themes of Shinto
- Maintaining Life in This World
- Religious Practice and Purification
- 3 Shinto in Japanese Religious History
- Shinto-Buddhist Interactions
- Todaiji Temple
- Watarai Shinto
- Meiji Restoration and Shinto
- Post-War Era and Shinto Disestablishment
- Dynamics of Japanese Religious World
- 4 Shinto Shrines
- Types and Structures of Shrines
- Signs of the Sacred
- Shimenawa - Sacred Rope
- Shrine Buildings and Inner Sanctuaries
- Important Shrines and Locations
- October 'Meeting of Kami'
- Shrine Animals
- Shrine Officiants
- 5 Life-Cycles, Festivals and Rituals
- Yearly Cycle of Events
- Important Life-Cycle Rituals and Festivals
- Festivals: Matsuri
- Tanabata Festival, Sendai
- Shinto Rituals
- Praying to the Kami
- 6 Prayers and Communications with the Kami
- Turning to the Gods
- Sincerity and Gratitude
- Objects and their Meanings
- Ema
- Omamori and Fuda
- Hamaya
- Symbolic Meanings
- Cyclicality
- 7 Shinto, Nationalism and Yasukuni Shrine
- Yasukuni Shrine
- Political Manoeuvres and Opposition
- 8 Shinto in the Modern World
- An Uneven Picture
- Rise and Challenge of New Religions
- An Unclear Future
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- Back Flip
- Back Cover
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