RELS 304 Final: Final_Exam_Review.docx

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 304
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Chapter 11- shinto: the native religion of japan, a reverent alliance with supra-mundane realities encountered in japanese life: in nature, society, and the home, for the. Japanese love their land with great constancy: a love of the country as a whole, and of each part of it, existing less in abstract idea than in an aesthetic love of things and. The background of shinto: background, term shinto is derived from the chinese shendao, meaning the way of the higher spirits of gods . Equivalent in japanese is: kami-no-michi, or the kami"s way : kami- gods or deities; beings possessing sacred power or superior potency, filled with a numinous or. Chronicles of japan: kogoshui a history of japan from the creation of the world to the middle of the seventh century. Defense of the practices of ancient priestly families connected with shinto: engi-shiki, manyoshu, the tale of genji.