The traditional religions in Japan have always occupied a special place in the social order. Shrine Shinto, Japan's aboriginal religion, is a community-based religion, and in agricultural society it enjoyed a position of security and excercised a unique social function. Buddhism, which originally stressed enlightenment of the individual, became in Japan a religion devoted to rituals for ancestors and supported the primacy of the family as the unit of social life.

Religion in changing Japanese society

Morioka, Kiyomi

Religion & Spirituality

University of Tokyo Press

Kazoku shakai no "ie" senryaku (Japanese Edition)

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Foreign Language Study & Reference

Yoshikawa Kōbunkan

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