Green Shinto members will be aware that as a supporter of animal rights we are appalled at some of the treatment of animals in Japan, and in particular at places related to Shinto festivals. Far from speaking out against animal … Read the rest
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The Solitary Witch
John Dougill meets a Wiccan – who’s Japanese
The growth of Wicca in recent years has been striking and it is now the UK’s seventh biggest religion. The revival was sparked by Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft Today (1954) … Read the rest
The extracts below are taken from a paper written by a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University, Eriko Kawanishi. She has an interest in Western paganism, particularly British Wicca and Celtic forms or paganism, and has made what she calls a
Thanks to Green Shinto reader, Daniel Oshima, for bringing to our attention the religion of the Akha people who originated from the western part of China (probably Yunnan) but have migrated to Thailand and Burma in recent times. According to … Read the rest
My guide in Busan, Ryu Dong-il, was warm and sensitive to a tourist’s viewpoint. By the end of the day I’d got to know about his family, hobbies and a whole lot about Korean culture. The son of an illiterate … Read the rest
Thanks to Ray Tsuchiyama for this visual report of a true multifaith ceremony at the Izumi Taishakyo shrine in Hawaii to commemorate the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb 77 years ago. Ray writes: ‘Rarely do you see a Buddhist (Nichiren) … Read the rest
‘Actually not many Koreans know much about the shamanic tradition. It’s strange,’ scholar David Mason told me. ‘It’s as if they were ashamed of it. Few Koreans could face their past until the 1980s because it was all too painful. … Read the rest