Word: shintoism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What we have is weather as electronic American Shintoism, a casual but almost mystic daily religion wherein nature is not inert but restless, stirring, alive with kinetic fronts and meanings and turbulent expectations (forecasts, variables, prophecies). We have installed an elaborate priesthood and technology of interpretation: acolytes and satellites preside over snow and circuses. At least major snowstorms have about them an innocence and moral neutrality that is more refreshing than the last national television spectacle, the O.J. Simpson trial...
...photo caption in last Friday's Crimson referred to two Japanese beliefs systems, Shintoism and Buddhism, as "superstition." Because the word "superstition" suggests irrationality, however, the two should have been termed "religions...