![]() ![]() Christians were harshly persecuted during the Edo period (the early 1600s) and driven underground out of fear that Japanese peasants and samurai would feel more loyal to a foreign Pope than their own lord. ![]() The former arguably - fused with a twisted form of neo-Bushido doctrine - saw something of an apotheosis in the Tokubetsu Kogeki/" Special Attack" units of the final, desperate months of the military's period in power.Ĭhristianity, however, was increasingly seen as a threat to the existing social order. The phenomenon of Japanese "martial" Shinto-Buddhism is quite notable in comparison to the pacifistic Indo-Chinese strains of Buddhism. Today, many Buddhist temples coexist with Shinto shrines, and many Japanese people practice both Shinto and Buddhist rituals. ![]() Buddhism, for instance, was almost seamlessly integrated into Shinto within just a century or two of its arrival in the Japanese Islands (at least partly because Orthodox Buddhism was regarded with suspicion and semi-exterminated). Like Taoism or Hinduism, Shinto is a polytheistic system of belief without set doctrines or leadership, and is home to several different schools of both. This was partly because of pre-Tridentine Catholic practice, which was lax and didn't care much for orthodoxy (the priority was on conversion), and Japan's cultural-religious tradition. ![]()
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