Warden + virtuoso + salaryman = priest: paradigms within Japanese Shinto for religious specialists and institutions

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Japanese Shinto priests are harnessing every available resource to survive in an increasingly profit oriented society. Their shrines are exhibiting signs of commercialization such as parking lots, wedding halls, and festivals which attract much needed contributions from the community. Such changes are imperative because modern Japanese society mandates economic independence and flexibility to social realities.

Economic aspects, Priests, Religious buildings, Shinto shrines

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Shifting paradigms of religion and the state: implications of the 1997 Supreme Court decision for social, religious and political change

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An analysis is presented on the Japan Supreme Court ruling that a distinct separation must be observed between religion and politics. The ruling reverses a long tradition of laxity in the Liberal Democratic Party's participation in venerating spirits of Japan's military dead by visiting Shinto shrines, and the political exploitation of that practice.

Japan, Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Political aspects, Church and state, Japan. Supreme Court

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