A Study of Shinto The Religion of the Japanese Nation [Hardcover]

This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious comparison.

Introduction.  Genetical or Historical.  1. Some Traces of Animatism or Pre-Animism in ShintM  2. Animistic Phases of Nature Worship Among the Japanese  Complex Nature Worship  3. Fetishism and Phallicism  4. Spiritism  5. Anthropolatry and Ancestor Worship in the Stage of Nature Religion  6. Totemism and Primitive Monotheism in Original ShintM  7. ShintM as a Sheer Polytheism  8. Theanthropic Aspect of ShintM Deities  ShintM as a Theanthropic or Homocentric Religion  9. ShintM is the Japanese National Religion or Natural Growth  10. Ancient ShintM Practices  11. Dawn of Intellectual Awkening  12. Dethronement of Minor Deities and Amalgamation or Unification of Different Deities  13. From Polytheism to Pantheism with Some Phases of Henotheism and Montheism  14. Ancient Myths and the Three Divine Imperial Regalia: An Attempt at Rational Interpretation  15. Germs of Moral Ideas in ShintM and Appearance of a Change in the Idea of Sacrifice  16. Inner Purity Emphasized, and Sincerity or Uperightness as the Fundamental Ethical Principle Becomes Pre-Eminent in ShintM  17. Ethical Transformation of the Naturalistic Phallic Deities From a Higher Religious Point of View and Some ShintM Rites or Ceremonies Moralized  18. Worship of ShintM Deities in Spirit and In Truth  Resulting in Iconoclasm  19. Some Deeper Reflections Upon thel³q