RELIGIONS
SHINTO
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a religious festival
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Worshipping and honoring ‘gods’ and ancestral spirits
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a kind of Japanese food
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the name of a God
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancestor worship refers to rituals designed to commemorate and venerate the spirits of one’s deceased forebears. While it is often associated with the Confucian notion of filial piety, ancestor worship crosses the boundaries of religious traditions, geographical regions, and socioeconomic groups.
Detailed explanation-2: -The last affirmation is to practice matsuri, which is the worship and honor given to the kami and ancestral spirits. Shinto followers also believe that the kami are the ones who can either grant blessings or curses to a person.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shinto (Japanese: , romanized: Shintō) is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan’s indigenous religion and as a nature religion.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most Japanese will revert to ancestor worship in times of crisis – perhaps as a means of staying in touch with the roots of their socio-cultural identity as a people. One of the reasons for this may be that ancestor worship has not been peculiar to a particular organised religion.