I have always been fascinated by Shinto, so much so that I wrote my masters about it and its role in Japan during the years until World War II. This is the foundation for my new series on Shinto. And so I set out not only to translate the 75 pages into English but also to make it… not so fucking boring! I am still in the process of doing this, and I will strive to post one about once a week. I will, of course, reference the sources I use in the posts, but I will also strive to make a post with all the sources together at one point.
Now, what will this Shinto series cover? It will briefly cover Shinto between 1600 and 1868 and then more in-depth cover the era from 1868 to 1945. I should say that the focus will be mostly on Shinto as a civil religion known to scholars and interested people as State-Shinto. Don’t worry; I will go into what this is and how it functions in a separate post, as it is a little complicated.
I will write about Shinto and what happened after WWII. Maybe I will even write more in-depth on Shinto before 1600 (I´m not sure about this yet; I fear there might not be many sources available in English). Yet this will require me to do extra research and not just translation, so I won’t commit to that coming out anytime soon!’
You can find the series here!
I hope you find the series interesting. If there is anything you would like me to cover in a similar fashion, please leave a comment here or on my Instagram!
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