Ew, ads! Want to see this without ads, earlier, along with exclusive content? Go to https://nebula.tv/videos/cogito-what-is-shinto Shintoism, the indigenous religious practice of Japan. Even with an over 2000 year history Shinto has never been easy to define, the word Shinto wasn’t even used much until the seventeenth century. Shinto has its own shrines, priests, gods and rituals. Everything you'd expect from a religion but today while over 80% of Japanese people participate in Shinto practices only 3-4% identify themselves as believers in Shinto and many Japanese people practice Shinto alongside Buddhism without any sense of contradiction. So what is Shinto? Why are Sumo wrestlers so salty? And what can the god of hair do for you? Well, let's find out. This video was researced and co-written by Clark Van Horne. 0:00-1:16 Intro 1:16-5:11 Creation Story 5:11-5:45 Etymology 5:45-9:40 Kami 9:40-11:35 Purification 11:35-14:56 Shrines 14:56-16:09 Festivals 16:09-19:05 State Shinto 19:05-22:41 Conclusion IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE. ??https://www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/CogitoEdu?? Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT MERCHANDISE teespring.com/stores/cogito-store? Go checkout https://nebula.app/cogito Who Are The Sami People? | https://youtu.be/_6sQPJvGaO0 What Is Islam? | https://youtu.be/XlvEymU-S4o? Who Are The M?ori People Of New Zealand? | https://youtu.be/Nw81to_XmXM What Is Taoism? | https://youtu.be/U6hslRjGaww What Is A Cult? https://youtu.be/QUHNKCkXYes?? History Of Tea | https://youtu.be/6S0hlv5sUbw?? What Was The Indus Valley Civilisation? | https://youtu.be/rlONwxT9Nlc?? What Is Judaism | https://youtu.be/0VAylWxDQfk?? Who Are The San Bushmen? | https://youtu.be/1oQ5Jd7p2aY?? What Is Zoroastrianism? | https://youtu.be/hl9QgeHdKYk What Is Hinduism? https://youtu.be/xlBEEuYIWwY?? What Is Sikhism? https://youtu.be/L-1UAORcX4c?? Sources and Further Reading: Boyd, James, and Ron Williams 1999 Artful Means: An Aesthetic View of Shinto Purification Rituals. Journal of ritual studies 13(1):37-52. Breen, John, and Mark Teeuwen 2010 A new history of Shinto. Chichester;Malden, MA;: Wiley-Blackwell. Hardacre, Helen 2017 Shinto. New York: Oxford University Press. Kamata, To?ji, and Gaynor Sekimori 2017 Myth and deity in Japan: the interplay of Kami and Buddhas. Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. Kato?, Genchi, and Iinkai Nihon Yunesuko Kokunai 1988 A historical study of the religious development of Shinto. New York: Greenwood Press. Kuroda, Toshio 1981 Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion. The Journal of Japanese studies 7(1):1-21. Littleton, C. Scott 2002 Shinto. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler, and Michiaki Okuyama 2020 Defining Shinto: a reader. Abingdon, Oxon;New York, NY;: Routledge. O?, Yasumaro, and Gustav Heldt 2014 The Kojiki: an account of ancient matters. New York: Columbia University Press. Ono, Sokyo, and William Woodard 2011 Shinto the Kami Way. New York: Tuttle Publishing. Picken, Stuart D. B. 2011 Historical dictionary of Shinto. Volume no. 104. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. Rots, Aike 2015 Sacred Forests, Sacred Nation: The Shinto Environmentalist Paradigm and the Rediscovery of "Chinju no Mori". Japanese journal of religious studies 42(2):205-233. Teeuwen, Mark 2002 From Jind? to Shinto: A Concept Takes Shape. Japanese journal of religious studies 29(3/4):233-263. Teeuwen, Mark, et al. 2003 Shinto, a short history. London;New York;: RoutledgeCurzon. Yamakage, Motohisa 2012 The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart. Tokyo: Kodansha International. #Japan #History #Shinto ???? Music by Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.com/creator?? Video/Images provided by Getty Images and Archive.org