Groups the spreadevent entries documenting Shinto's spread and institutional development within Japan, including its periods of state patronage and its presence among Japanese diaspora communities abroad, distinct from religions that spread chiefly by crossing into new host cultures. Belongs here: any event marking Shinto's institutional establishment, state adoption or diaspora presence in a new setting. Does not belong here: individual kami veneration or shrine-founding events with no broader spread component; the spread events of any other tradition.
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Shinto...is a religion from Japan...it is often regarded by its practitioners as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion.
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