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The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan is unavailable, but you can change that!

Originally written as lectures for his comparative religion course, this volume represents Terry’s investigation into the Shinto religion to enlighten missionaries, apologetics students, and interested Christians. This concise work includes observations on Christian interactions with Shinto religion and culture, as well as Shinto’s influences from Buddhism, Confucianism, and recent religious...

worshiping. And it is a common thought and saying: “Everything in the world depends on the spirit of the gods of heaven and earth, and therefore the worship of the gods is a matter of primary importance. The gods who do harm are to be appeased, so that they may not punish those who have offended them; and all the gods are to be worshiped, so that they may be induced to increase their favors.”1 One of the rules which all the ministers of the Mikado emphasized in the old times, before the introduction
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