Customer Reviews

Astonishing, marvellous, beautiful and peaceful. - By: lector, 04 Jul 2007
I was looking for a book about Shinto. Now, I think I was lucky enough to find this handy, complete, & easy to read explanation about Shinto, written by a 79th generation Grand Master of Shinto!

I also found surprisingly, that the reading of this book was a relaxing one, with a sense of beauty & peace. You will discover that Shinto "has no founder, no doctrines, no precepts or commandments, no idols & no organization", which is something quite astonishing for someone like me, who has been educatedin the catholic religion!

The book consist of 8 chapters:
1. Shinto for the New Millennium.
2. What is Shinto?
3. What is Jinja?
4. The idea of Misogi (Purification)
5. The idea of Harai
6. Koshinto: Theory of one spirit, four souls
7. Koshinto: view of the "Other World"
8. The systematic training method of chinkon

No doubt,this is a reference book for anyone insterestedin Shinto.