Word: shinto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conferences in the series studied ten world religions--Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Jainism and indigenous traditions--as they relate to ecology...
...would the forebears of Bob Lloyd, the Missourian who runs Bodine Aluminum in St. Louis and nearby Troy. Here Japanese workers hold Shinto ceremonies to celebrate milestones such as a new furnace or the casting of the 1 millionth engine part. "Our people think the plant ceremonies are a riot," says Lloyd...
...recapture a majority or negotiate a new coalition. "There is a new party forming called the Liberal Party of Japan and perhaps they would be a new coalition partner. Some of the members are former LDP members," says Kunii. Less likely but possible is an alliance with the Shin Shinto party, which is the current opposition party but is closer politically to the LDP than its coalition partners. Hashimoto's popularity is high after his capable handling of discontent in Okinawa over the presence of U.S. troops and signs that Japan's economy may finally be on the rebound...
Upstairs, I switch on the Shinto Weather Channel and the priests at the map show me the next wave--white swirls and eddies over Indiana, heading ominously east...
...apolitical. The weather in its mirabilis mode can, of course, be dragged onto the op-ed page to start a macro-argument about global warming or a micro-spat over a mayor's fecklessness in deploying snowplows. Otherwise, traumas of weather do not admit of political interpretation. The snow Shinto reintroduces an element of what is almost charmingly uncontrollable in life. And, as shown last week, surprising, even as the priests predict it. This is welcome--a kind of ideological relief--in a rather stupidly politicized society living under the delusion that everything in life (and death) is arguable, political...