RELIGIONS
SHINTO
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the indigenous religion of the islands of Japan.
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“the way of the goddesses.”
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native to China and Japan.
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a hybrid of ancient Buddhism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shinto (literally “the way of the gods”) is Japan’s native belief system and predates historical records. The many practices, attitudes, and institutions that have developed to make up Shinto revolve around the Japanese land and seasons and their relation with the human inhabitants.
Detailed explanation-2: -The notion of Shinto as Japan’s “indigenous religion” stemmed from the growth of modern nationalism between the Edo and Meiji periods; this view promoted the idea that Shinto’s origins were prehistoric and that it represented something like the “underlying will of Japanese culture".
Detailed explanation-3: -Shinto (, Shintō), also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous religion of Japan and of most of the people of Japan.