This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Animism is an important part of many religions - from Shinto, Hinduism and Buddhism to Paganism and a range of indigenous religions - ...

Shinto is Japan’s indigenous religion that goes back centuries. It is an animism that believes there are thousands of kami, or spirits, inhabiting nature, such as forests, rivers and mountains.

An artist dressed as Sarutahiko, a Shinto god who helps and watches over travelers in Japanese myth, prepares to march during the annual Shinto festival called the Grand Festival at the Kotohiragu ...

This short film offers an introduction to Shinto, making reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes ...

TACOMA, Washington, March 18. -- Some of the leaders of religious thought in Japan are endeavoring to choose between Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity as the future religion of the empire.

The Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership was formed in 1969 as an affiliate of the Association of Shinto Shrines, an influential group representing about 80,000 shrines nationwide.

Ise Jingu is the oldest of all Shinto shrines in Japan. About 100 priests and 400 staff servants also keep her company just in case she needs anything. Her house is replaced every twenty years ...

Mie Prefectural Police referred 12 individuals to prosecutors Tuesday over possible violations of animal protection laws in connection with the alleged abuse of horses during a Shinto ritual.

"This is very specific to Japanese culture and has roots in both Shintoism and animism, but at the very beginning of ...

This shrine in Kumamoto Pref. was razed in the 2016 earthquake. The seven-year restoration fused traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology. It had a magnitude of 7.3 and a reading of 7 ...

And from Hindus in India to followers of Shintoism in Japan to the Indigenous ... There’s a lot of conceptual overlap here with animism, anthropologists’ (historically derogatory) term for ...