Word: shintoism
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...Kantogakuin, a private university in Yokohama. As he recalls it, he was in a spiritual quandary. ul had stopped practicing Christianity because I found the Trinity doctrine unreasonable. I abhorred Buddhism because it is a skeptical religion, without a central idea or purpose. I could not return to Shintoism's immaturity, its inadequate guide for living." Jewish friends introduced Kotsuji to leaders of the newly founded, Jerusalem-based World Union for the Propagation of Judaism, which hopes to break down traditional Jewish antagonism toward proselytizing and seek converts...
Temple of Shintoism. The whole fabric of Virginia's 39,899 square miles is stretched to the breaking point between past and future. Along the James River, the masters of magnificent plantation homes look with distrust on the inevitable industrialization of their domain...
...justly proud of its past. Virginia gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, of whom three-Washington, Jefferson and Madison-were the muscle, the heart and the mind of the Republic. Yet in its homage to history, Virginia has become increasingly a cult of the past, a temple of Shintoism in the U.S. In this sense Virginia is indeed less a geographical state than a state of mind, and the power of its longtime modern-day leader rests, as one of his aides said last week, on the fact that "Harry Byrd usually stands for what most Virginians think...
...Spread of the Gospel faces serious obstacles. "In spite of some encouragement," there is as yet no "convincing evidence of a widespread revival of religion." And to make evangelism harder, "There is, also, a recrudescence of some of the ancient faiths [i.e., Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Shintoism] often associated with nationalistic fervor, and threatening to put obstacles in the way of the church's work . . . There is the greatest need for the rethinking of missionary strategy, and for devising new methods of cooperation." But while new methods of evangelism are desirable, "the finest, best-tempered and most certain instrument of evangelism...
...possible re-establishment of Shintoism as the state religion...