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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...

There is no code of moral law; there is nothing in the worship that is fairly comparable to what we understand by dogma, creed, or Church. Strictly speaking, this system has no heaven or hell, no deep sense of sin, and no concept of mediatorial redemption from sin and evil. The dead—all the dead of all the ages—are conceived as somehow living in the unseen vacancy around, above, below; they are present at the worship; they haunt the tombs; they are interested in the life and works of their descendants;
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