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  2. State Shinto - Wikipedia

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    Shinto is a blend of indigenous Japanese folk practices, beliefs, court manners, and spirit-worship which dates back to at least 600 CE. [7]: 99 These beliefs were unified as "Shinto" during the Meiji era (1868–1912), [6]: 4 [12] though the Chronicles of Japan (日本書紀, Nihon Shoki) first referenced the term in the eighth century.

  3. Myōjin - Wikipedia

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    When the Meiji government officially separated Shinto from Buddhism, official use of titles and terminology perceived as having Buddhist connotations such as (dai)myōjin, (dai)gongen or daibosatsu by shrines were legally abolished and discouraged. However, a few deities/shrines are still often referred to as (dai)myōjin in popular usage even ...

  4. Glossary of Shinto - Wikipedia

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    Jinja-shinto (神社神道) – Originally a synonym of State Shinto (Kokka Shinto below), it is now a term criticized by specialists as problematic. [1] When applied to post-war Shinto, it means the beliefs and practices associated to shrines, particularly those associated with the Association of Shinto Shrines. [1] Jisei (自制, lit.

  5. Shinto - Wikipedia

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    A torii gateway to the Yobito Shrine (Yobito-jinja) in Abashiri City, HokkaidoThere is no universally agreed definition of Shinto. [2] According to Joseph Cali and John Dougill, if there was "one single, broad definition of Shinto" that could be put forward, it would be that "Shinto is a belief in kami", the supernatural entities at the centre of the religion. [3]

  6. Secular Shrine Theory - Wikipedia

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    Shinto Books "What was State Shinto, New Edition" by Chihiko Ashizu, note by Koremaru Sakamoto, Jinja-Shimpo-Sha, July 2006. ISBN 978-4-915265-10-5; Shinto History Book. Jinja Shimpo Seikyo Kenkyusho (ed.), Augmented and Revised History of Modern Shrine Shinto, Jinja Shimpo, December 1986. National Diet Library, Bibliography ID: 000004264855

  7. Tenrikyo theology - Wikipedia

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    An early doctrine of the Tenrikyo church, written to conform to the State Shinto doctrine at the time, records the name as Tenri-Ōkami. Tenrikyo's current doctrine maintains that Tenri-Ō-no-Mikoto is the divine name to be used in the context of prayer. [ 3 ]

  8. Onmyōdō - Wikipedia

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    Onmyōdō was officially abolished in 1870 by the Tensha Shinto Prohibition Ordinance , but it was permitted again after the propagation of religious freedom and the abolition of State Shinto in 1945. [8] A new organization for Tensha Tsuchimikado Shinto (天社土御門神道), considered the modern form of Onmyōdō, was established in 1954.

  9. Shinbutsu-shūgō - Wikipedia

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    Foxes sacred to Shinto kami Inari, a torii, a Buddhist stone pagoda, and Buddhist figures together at Jōgyō-ji, Kamakura.. Shinbutsu-shūgō (神仏習合, "syncretism of kami and buddhas"), also called Shinbutsu-konkō (神仏混淆, "jumbling up" or "contamination of kami and buddhas"), is the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism that was Japan's main organized religion up until the Meiji period.