Word: shinto
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...which the Latin world has erected against Anglo-Saxon usurpation. . . . There is no resemblance whatsoever between ostensibly Catholic Mexico and any country in Europe or America that is really Catholic. The Roman Church occupies here a place not much different from that which it might hold in a Confucian, Shinto, Brahman, or pagan country. For Mexico is obsessed by Aztec nationalism, by a desire to extirpate the religion of those who brought her both Christianity and European civilization, and to exalt the memory of the Montezuman emperors. This campaign has culminated in a feeling that the Roman Church is antinational...
...holy Lasa, was in time to authenticate a newspaper report of a Negro who stood barefoot on red-hot iron with apparent comfort. Dr. McGovern suggested that the Negro might have been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without injury to his bare feet which were rubbed with salt...
...Japan, hostile feeling toward the U. S. was fanned into flame by the Jingo press, reservist soldiers and Shinto priests. The latter, heads of the ancient religion of Japan, met in convention at the Meiji shrine, erected to the honor and glory of the father of the present Emperor, passed a resolution...
...exclusion law, aimed at the Japanese, has been passed by Congress and signed by the President. This convinces the Japanese people of the falsity of the American ideals of justice and humanity. We, the leaders of Shinto, charged with responsibility for the national morals, declare our purpose to do all possible to protect the national courage...
...Tokyo, the spirits of 122 royal predecessors blessed the marriage of Pr.nce Regent Hirohito to Princess Nagako, solemnized according to Shinto rites. It was the consummation of a love match, much opposed by the Elder Statesmen...