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Shinto and Japanese New Religions: Understanding the Indigenous Roots and Modern Transformations

"Shinto, Japan's indigenous spiritual tradition, provides the foundational animistic worldview, ritual grammar, and cultural concepts of purity that have profoundly shaped the emergence of Japan's modern new religious movements, known as Shinshūkyō. While traditional Shinto emphasizes localized communal harmony, ancestral reverence, and ritual purification (harae) rather than strict dogmatic creeds, these modern movements have selectively synthesized Shinto cosmology with elements of Buddhism, Christianity, Western esotericism, and modern secular science to address the rapid social displacement of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The Core F..."

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