SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Question
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Hinduism
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Taoism
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Shintoism
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Confucianism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shintō, indigenous religious beliefs and practices of Japan.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shinto, or the “way of the spirits or deities, ‘’ began to take form in Japan’s pre-historic period before the sixth century C.E. In this early phase, Shinto was the religion of a pre-literate society that was organized around the central social unit of the clan.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the ancient animistic religions, kami were understood as simply the divine forces of nature. Worshippers in ancient Japan revered creations of nature which exhibited a particular beauty and power such as waterfalls, mountains, boulders, animals, trees, grasses, and even rice paddies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main belief in Shinto is the worship of kami, which are spirits that inhabit the natural world. Kami is a difficult concept to explain. According to Shintoists, this is because human beings have no way of truly understanding the nature of kami.