This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious comparison.
Introduction. Genetical or Historical.
1. Some Traces of Animatism or
Pre-Animism in Shint
2. Animistic Phases of Nature Worship Among the
Japanese Complex Nature Worship
3. Fetishism and Phallicism
4. Spiritism
5.
Anthropolatry and Ancestor Worship in the Stage of Nature Religion
6.
Totemism and Primitive Monotheism in Original Shint
7. Shint as a Sheer
Polytheism
8. Theanthropic Aspect of Shint Deities Shint as a
Theanthropic or Homocentric Religion
9. Shint is the Japanese National
Religion or Natural Growth
10. Ancient Shint Practices
11. Dawn of
Intellectual Awkening
12. Dethronement of Minor Deities and Amalgamation or
Unification of Different Deities
13. From Polytheism to Pantheism with Some
Phases of Henotheism and Montheism
14. Ancient Myths and the Three Divine
Imperial Regalia: An Attempt at Rational Interpretation
15. Germs of Moral
Ideas in Shint and Appearance of a Change in the Idea of Sacrifice
16. Inner
Purity Emphasized, and Sincerity or Uperightness as the Fundamental Ethical
Principle Becomes Pre-Eminent in Shint
17. Ethical Transformation of the
Naturalistic Phallic Deities From a Higher Religious Point of View and Some
Shint Rites or Ceremonies Moralized
18. Worship of Shint Deities in Spirit
and In Truth Resulting in Iconoclasm
19. Some Deeper Reflections Upon the
Divine Protection of the nation A Problem Unsolved From the Old Standpoint
of Shint, the National Religion of Japan
20. Unique Position of Shint Among
the Worlds Religions. Bibliography. Index.
Genchi Katu
