The Shinto Cult

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CONTENTS
1. The Country
2. Is Shinto a Religion?
3. Origin and Relative Age of the People
4. Meaning of the Term Shinto
5. Sources of Information
6. Japanese Cosmogony and Mythology
7. The Japanese a Self-centered People
8. Essence of the Shinto Cult
9. The Great Sanctuaries
10. Five Noteworthy Objects Connected with the Worship
11. The Ancestor Worship
12. Elements of Animism
13. The Domestic Cult
14. The Communal Cult
15. The National Cult
16. The Harvest Service
17. The Great Purification
18. Other Ritual Services
19. Influence of China on Japanese Thought
20. Influence of Buddhism
21. Revival of Pure Shinto
22. Esoteric Shinto
23. Mingling of Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism
24. Roman Catholicism in Japan
25. Alleged Present Religious Indifference
26. Concluding Observations