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1. 1. Shinto-Buddhism Syncretism - A historical peculiarity or a renewed spiritual paradigm?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Fredrik Westman; [2013]
   Keywords : Critical discourse analysis; Japan; Shinto; Japanese Buddhism; Shinto-Buddhism syncretism; shinbutsu-shuugou; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The long process of syncretization between Shinto and Buddhism has defined much of Japan's philosophical and theological history. This process was only interrupted with the Meiji Restoration, following which the Meiji government enforced an ideology of the two religions being completely separate as part of its State Shinto system. READ MORE