Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #transnationalshinto
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I’ve done a lot of Shinto/Japanese mythology threads over the past six months, especially tied to teaching. At the risk of regurgitating, it feels like it warrants a thread of threads just to keep it all in one place for easy reference. 1/10
This thread explains how the foundational mythological texts, Nihon Shoki and Kojiki cannot be considered a single Japanese mythology. Rather, plurality was the name of the game from the time of our earliest written texts. 2/10
Over the summer, I did a series of three threads on #transnationalshinto to try to complicate ideas of Shinto as an indigenous religion. Here’s the first one, which focused on #buddhistart to show how kami and Buddhist deities blend in Japanese art. 3/10
