1. By: Drew Brackett, Austin Frueh, and Jesus Valdez

2.  3-4 million are Shintos  No founder  No official sacred scriptures  No fixed creeds  Indigenous religious beliefs and practices of Japan

3.  The word Shinto, which comes from the Chinese shin tao, meaning "the way of kami “  Now is a Japanese indigenous religion  Polytheism based on the kami, ancient gods or spirits

4.  new religious movements emerged out of the social classes  new religious movements were based mostly on individual religious experiences and aimed at healing diseases or spiritual salvation and unrest of the people

5. Revival Shinto sects: Izumo-oyashiro-kyo (or Taisha-kyo), Shinto-taikyo, Shinri-kyo Confucian sects: Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto Taisei-kyo Purification sects: Shinshu-kyo, Misogi-kyo Mountain worship sects: Jikko-kyo, Fuso-kyo, On take-kyo (or Mitake-kyo) "Faith-healing" sects: Kurozumi-kyo, Konko- kyo, Tenri-kyo

6.  beliefs in the mysterious creating and harmonizing power ( musubi ) of kami and in the truthful way ( makoto ) of kami  The nature of kami cannot be fully explained in words, because kami transcends the cognitive faculty of man

7.  Ceremonies  To appeal to the benevolent treatment and protection  Consist of abstinence  Offerings  Prayers  Purification

8.  Traditional family has 2 family altars  Shinto, for their tutelary kami and the goddess Amaterasu Omikami  Buddhist, for the family ancestors.  Pure Shinto families  Ceremonies and services in Shinto style

9.  No weekly services  1st and 15th of each month or on festival days  Visit shrine at own convenience  Some really devoted people visit every morning but it is not required

10.  home of the kami  inner sanctuary (most important part  shintai ("kami body") or mitama-shiro ("divine spirit's symbol") is in there  Usual symbol is a mirror  Torii at entrance

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