Shinto: Foundations, Festivals, and Fox Shrines

Undergraduate

Shinto has been called the way of the gods, a nature religion, a native Japanese religion, a nationalist religion, to name but a few of its many descriptions. In this class, we will spend a great deal of time figuring out what Shinto is and is not, debating the relative merits of these classifications. We will see that Shinto is, to say the least, a multifaceted tradition with a complex history and countless local variations. Open to all.