State Shinto

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title: State Shinto
text: State Shintō State Shintō was Imperial Japan's ideological use of the Japanese folk religion and traditions of Shinto. The state exercised control of shrine finances and training regimes for priests to strongly encourage Shinto practices that emphasized the Emperor as a divine being. The State Shinto ideology emerged at the start of the Meiji era, after government officials defined freedom of religion within the Meiji Constitution. Imperial scholars believed Shinto reflected the historical fact
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description: Imperial Japan's use of the Shinto religion
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Shinto
date created: 2005-10-17T11:42:11Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T17:18:00Z
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