Home›Shinto Sites›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups sacred sites by the specific religion or culture that consecrated them. Wikipedia defines a sacred space as "a designated area, often marked by physical boundaries or symbols, that is considered holy or consecrated by a particular religion or culture." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every site belonging to one tradition together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedShrines at which kami are enshrined, together with the mountains, forests, rocks and waterfalls treated as their dwelling-places. What counts as a Shinto site is not stable across time: the Meiji state's separation of kami from buddhas in 1868 broke apart institutions that had been combined for roughly a thousand years, and many places now classed as Shinto were not so classed before it. 2StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedContested. Whether "Shinto" names a continuous religion or a category assembled in the modern period out of older and more various kami worship is disputed; on the second reading, a number of the places in this group were not Shinto sites before the nineteenth century. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedSacred Sites 1Learn MoreThe sacred sites of Shinto This group holds the sacred sites of Shinto, the shrines (jinja) where the kami are enshrined and worshipped, together with sacred mountains, forests and natural features held to be dwelling-places of the divine. The shrine, marked by its torii gate, is the characteristic Shinto sacred place. The browser will find the great shrines of Japan and the sacred natural sites of the tradition. The entries describe each site's enshrined kami and its place in Japanese religious life.TraditionFilter Results2 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll324,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll324,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)Independent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Establishment StatusAllDisestablished (1)Varies by Province (1)FounderAllNone (1)Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCustomary Norm (2)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2012-12-18 (1)2016-12-31 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (1)712 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll500 BCE (1)300 BCE (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)TheologyAllAnimist: persons and powers in land, water and living things (1)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Polytheistic: many gods (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareBuddhismTradition2 entriesShintoTradition9 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Shinto: A Historytier 1Helen Hardacre, Oxford University Press, 2017View the Source3. A New History of Shintotier 1John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.