Shinto is the traditional religious practice of Japan, but that does not mean that non-Japanese cannot practise it. This short book contains two essays. The first, Shinto for Non-Japanese, discusses the attitudes of most Shinto priests and practitioners to non-Japanese who practise Shinto (generally positive), and a fairly general discussion of how one might go about doing it. The second, Practising Shinto Outside Japan, is a set of detailed instructions for one way that a non-Japanese person could practise Shinto outside Japan, and be clearly practising Shinto rather than something else. Note that this book is a compilation of two essays, one 7,000 words long and one 6,000 words long, and is thus very short.
Shinto is the traditional religious practice of Japan, but that does not mean that non-Japanese cannot practise it. This short book contains two essays. The first, Shinto for Non-Japanese, discusses the attitudes of most Shinto priests and practitioners to non-Japanese who practise Shinto (generally positive), and a fairly general discussion of how one might go about doing it. The second, Practising Shinto Outside Japan, is a set of detailed instructions for one way that a non-Japanese person could practise Shinto outside Japan, and be clearly practising Shinto rather than something else. Note that this book is a compilation of two essays, one 7,000 words long and one 6,000 words long, and is thus very short.
