Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan. In Japanese, they are called shinshūkyō (新宗教) or shinkō shūkyō (新興宗教). Japanese...

of religion in Japan has been characterized by the predominance of animistic religions practiced by its mainland, Ryukyuan, and Ainu inhabitants. In addition...

Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there were...

Ryukyuan religion, and Japanese new religions in Japan; Satsana Phi in Laos; Vietnamese folk religion, and Cao Đài, Hòa Hảo in Vietnam. Indian religions are...

The Article 20 of the Japanese Constitution provides for freedom of religion in Japan. In 2023, the country was scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom...

Baháʼí Faith. Indian religions, also called Dharmic religions are the oldest religions of Asia. All Indian religions originated in the Indian subcontinent...

Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a religion originating in Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners...

Hinduism is a minority religion in Japan mainly followed by the Indian, Sri Lankan and Nepali expatriate residents of Japan, who number about 166,550 people...

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...

The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion's longstanding presence in other nearby countries, and forms a minority...

2023 Korea Research's regular survey 'Public Opinion in Public Opinion', 61% identify with No Religion, 17% with Buddhism and 20% with Christianity (Protestantism...

first established in Japan in the 6th century CE. Most of the Japanese Buddhists belong to new schools of Buddhism which were established in the Kamakura period...

Shinigami (Japanese: 死神, lit. 'kami of death') are kami that invite humans toward death in certain aspects of Japanese religion and culture. Shinigami...

Sung's writings address religion in the context of the national liberation struggle against Japan. Kim argued stated that if a religion "prays for dealing...

Organized religion, also known as institutional religion, is religion in which belief systems and rituals are systematically arranged and formally established...

The definition of religion is a controversial and complicated subject in religious studies with scholars failing to agree on any one definition. Oxford...

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the Wayback Machine. Religion, Vol. 44, no. 3. October 2013. Mullins, Mark R. (2011). "Religion in Contemporary Japanese Lives". In Lyon Bestor, Victoria;...

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Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of...

In the study of comparative religion, the East Asian religions or Taoic religions, form a subset of the Eastern religions, who originated in East Asia...

In religious studies and folkloristics, folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion...

The history of the Jews in Japan reaches back to the early 1700s. Jewish travelers entered Japan as early as the 1700s, however no permanent settlements...

Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...

(1894). Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Volume 1. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Hori, Ichiro (1968). Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change. Chicago:...

off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had...

of the concept of Tao (in Chinese), Đạo (in Vietnamese) or Dō (in Japanese or Korean). They include many Chinese folk religions, Taoism and Confucianism...

polarizing and important figures in modern Japanese religion and politics. Ikeda Daisaku was born in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, on 2 January 1928. Ikeda had four...

influences in Japanese religious belief. Japanese myths are tied to the topography of the archipelago as well as agriculturally-based folk religion, and the...