Презентация на тему по темеМировые религии(Япония)

and Shintoism. Most believers in Japan consider themselves to

both religions at once, indicating that the religious syncretism. In 1886, during the Meiji Restoration, Shinto was declared the sole and mandatory state religion of the Japanese state. After the Second World War, with the adoption of the new Japanese Constitution in 1947, Shinto lost this status.

to 84-96% of the population, representing a large number

of believers in a syncretism of both religions. However, these estimates are based on the Japanese association with this or that temple, not on the number of really believers. Professor Robert Kish suggests that only 30% of the population identify themselves as believers.

beliefs and traditions. Religion in Japan tends to syncretism,

resulting in mixing of different religious practices. For adults and children celebrate the rituals of Shinto, students praying before exams, young couples organize wedding ceremony in the Christian Church, and the funeral - in a Buddhist temple.

the population. Among the associations of the Christian churches

operating in the general Japanese scale, the largest - Catholic Central Council, further, the number of followers are Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals and parishioners of the Joint United Church of Christ in Japan.