uk finance.com has recently come out with an article about how dirty money is. Nice irony for a financial website. Especially so in view of the banking crisis and the Cyprus disaster. It turns out that it’s all filthy lucre, … Read the rest
Category: Social values (Page 4 of 5)
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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Wherever you look in Shinto, there are animals. Komainu and shishi lions stand as … Read the rest
The unfortunate alliance of Shinto with right-wing nationalism is nowhere more evident than in the cult of Yasukuni Shrine, established in the nineteenth century to honour those who died on behalf of the emperor. Defenders of the shrine like … Read the rest
Mystery circles
Yesterday I went on a crop circles tour which led me to reflect on the nature of intuition. The general feeling on my tour was that the number and complexity of crop formations mean that some if not … Read the rest
Polytheism and pluralism
The new edition of Japanese Religions, a journal published by the NCC in Kyoto, carries an interesting article by Ugo Dessi, lecturer at Leipzig University. In his paper Dessi looks at how pluralism has … Read the rest
Kego Shrine in the midst of Tenjin, Fukuoka, is a sorry-looking place, swamped as it is by concrete, consumerism and car parks. It’s like a vision of the degradation of spirituality in modern life. A religion whose roots lie … Read the rest
Scouts are something one associates with Christianity. That was certainly Baden-Powell’s intention when he founded the boy scout movement in 1907 in the UK. But on an early morning visit to Shimogamo Jinja I came across a Shinto scout group … Read the rest