Word: shintoism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of sects having but one member on the register of the Phillips Brooks House includes: Shintoism, Taoism. Cambelitism, Zharathustraism, Babaism, and Buddhism. Twenty-five Disciples of Christ, 12 United Bretheren, and 13 Mormons filled out the Phillips Brooks cards...
...most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered by the Buddhist clergy. That state of things lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces...
...Ochimi Kurbushirm, Tokyo, Bachelor of Divinity, pointed out that Buddhism, Shintoism and Confucianism never gave women a place as persons, as Christianity...
...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...