RELIGIONS
SHINTO
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("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.
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a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddhartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century BC.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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 is the indigenous faith of the Japanese. It is a way of life and a way of thinking that has been an integral part of Japanese culture since ancient times. It is the foundation for the yearly life-cycles, beginning with the New Year’s Day visit Japanese pay to a Shinto shrine to wish for good luck.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shinto (, Shintō), also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous religion of Japan and of most of the people of Japan.