making reference to the centrality of women within Shinto beliefs. Dr Amanda Foreman discusses how Shinto merged with Buddhism in Japan and makes particular reference to the centrality of women ...

Most funerals in Japan are held in a Buddhist style. Japan’s Indigenous religion of Shinto is largely rooted in animism, which believes there are thousands of “kami,” or spirits, inhabiting ...

A Shinto priest explains the ancient Japanese religion – and the crucial, often forgotten role women played in keeping it alive after World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to send a ...

The Japanese Shinto religion is expressed to have “eight million gods”, or an abundance of gods too diverse to count. Today, Japanese spirituality is a melding of myriad cultures in a uniquely ...