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Shinto: A Celebration of Life
Aidan Rankin
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Description for Shinto: A Celebration of Life
Paperback. Introducing a gentle but powerful and enduring spiritual pathway reconnecting humanity with Great Nature and affirming all aspects of life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HRKN3; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 214.
Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow capped mountains. It sees the divine in rocks and streams communing with spirit worlds through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between cracks in city paving stones. Structured around ritual cleansing Shinto contains no concept of sin. It reveres ancestors but thinks little about the afterlife, asking us to live in and improve the present. Central to Shinto is Kannagara or the intuitive acceptance of the divine power contained in all living things. Dai Shizen (Great ... Read more
Shinto is an ancient faith of forests and snow capped mountains. It sees the divine in rocks and streams communing with spirit worlds through bamboo twigs and the evergreen sakaki tree. Yet it is also the manicured suburban garden and the blades of grass between cracks in city paving stones. Structured around ritual cleansing Shinto contains no concept of sin. It reveres ancestors but thinks little about the afterlife, asking us to live in and improve the present. Central to Shinto is Kannagara or the intuitive acceptance of the divine power contained in all living things. Dai Shizen (Great ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846944383
SKU
V9781846944383
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Ref
99-13
About Aidan Rankin
Aidan Rankin is a writer and researcher on spiritual and esoteric matters. He is on the National Council of the Theosophical Society in England and lives in London.
Reviews for Shinto: A Celebration of Life
This exceptional and timely book brings the primal wisdom of Japan into the global arena. Shinto offers a message of hope to humanity and all life on this planet. (Paul de Leeuw, Kannushi (Shinto Master) and Director of the Japanese Dutch Shinzen Foundation)