Shinto is Japan’s indigenous spiritual tradition, but unlike most religions, it has no single founder, sacred text, or strict doctrines. Instead, it revolves around the veneration of Kami ...

My hiking journey along the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail in Japan started by passing through a torii gate, a Shinto symbol marking the transition into sacredness. This, I thought, is how you make ...

This paper explores some dynamic aspects of the religio-political problems in Japan as expressions of the revitalization movement of modern Japanese civil religion, of which state Shinto is an ...

Shinto, the Indigenous faith of the Japanese people, is popular in Japan but seemingly rare in the U.S. So what is a Shinto shrine doing in Granite Falls?