 Religion: the human practice of
the collection of world views, beliefs, and how man
relates to their relationship with the unknown. Each
religion establishes holidays to celebrate events,
individuals and beliefs
 Shinto"A polytheistic and animistic religion,
Shinto revolves around supernatural entities called the kami (神).
The kami are
believed to inhabit all things, including forces of nature and prominent
landscape locations. The kami are
worshipped at kamidana household
shrines, family shrines, and jinja public
shrines.
The latter are staffed by priests, known as kannushi,
who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific kami enshrined
at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and kami and
to solicit the latter's blessing. Other common rituals include the kagura dances, rites
of passage,
and kami
festivals.
Public shrines facilitate forms of divination and
supply religious objects, such as amulets,
to the religion's adherents. Shinto places a major conceptual focus on
ensuring purity, largely by cleaning practices such as ritual washing
and bathing, especially before worship. Little emphasis is placed on
specific moral codes or particular afterlife beliefs, although the dead
are deemed capable of becoming kami.
The religion has no single creator or specific doctrine, and instead
exists in a diverse range of local and regional forms." Source
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