WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan’s major religion alongside Buddhism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shinto, The Way of the Gods, is Japan’s ancient belief system focused on the veneration of divine phenomena, or spirits, called kami – nature divinities of the land, sky, and waters.

Detailed explanation-3: -’the Way of the Gods’) was a term already used in the Yijing referring to the divine order of nature. Around the time of the spread of Buddhism in the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), it was used to distinguish indigenous Chinese religions from the imported religion.

Detailed explanation-4: -World Religions: Shintoism Shinto, which means “the way of the gods, ‘’ is the traditional religion of Japan. It emphasizes the relationship between humans and a variety of supernatural entities called kami which are associated with different aspects of life, including ancestors and forces of nature.