A difference of a Shinto shrine and a temple?
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Shito shrine is place for native Japanese religion.\nTemple is place for Buddhism, religion originated in India in the 6th century BC. Buddhism in Japan was imported to through China and Korea.
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I think you're off your rocker. Over ninety percent believe in Shintoism and go to the shrines. It is ingrained in their culture and if you do not do it, you are breaking with ancestors. \n\nMy Japanese friends came to America because they believe the Bible and could not go to shrine, it was easier for them to leave Japan and keep their faith, than to live their and break their faith.\n\nMany Japanese will tell you that they are not religious, but they will go to the shrines. To them they do not separate faith and life, they are one in the same. Here in a America with Western thought we separate our lives, faith, work, family and we are usually hypocritcal in that practice.
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yes there is a difference. The religious named hospitals all have religious names and the nonreligious named all have nonreligious names. What do you mean by "Religions?" If your wanting to know about Christian ideology and its involvement in the nuts and bolts of administration or patient care state it as such. I tend to think you are disturbed that those pesky Christians are involved in every area of life. If I was a Christian worker in the hospital I would give you the care  you needed. Would you in turn refuse to care for a injured christian if it was your job to provide care for the injured?  Love never fails you know
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Estimates vary.  One reason for this is that there is really a methodological debate about the lines between "religions."  For example, does one count all of Christianity as one religion, or are the different major traditions (Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Assyrian, Nestorian, Mormon, Coptic, Anabaptist, etc.) each separate religions, or are the individual denominations within those traditions (e.g., within Protestantism, the literally thousands of individual sects) "religions"?  Is Islam one religion, or are Sunni and Shi'a separate religions?  Is Buddhism one religion, or are Mahayana and Theravada traditions separate, or are the different Mahayana sects all different religions?--you see my point.\n\nSound complicated?  It only gets worse.  Because there is no one universal definition of what is and what is not a religion.  Are only "organized" religions included (official, self-declared sects)?  Or what about spiritual systems that are not organized in that way?  What about belief systems that are para-religious, like "agnosticism" or "secular humanism" or state-sponsored cults like the Juche belief system of North Korea, or the "cult of the Republic" of the United States whose religious holidays you might be observing without even noticing it on Memorial Day?\n\nHere's a safe rule of thumb:  by even conservative estimates, there are probably over 1,000 religions in the world today.  That doesn't count the vast numbers of religions that have largely disappeared from the past.  And by other estimates, the totals are closer to 20,000.  Now remember, many of those faiths might have relatively few adherents, compared to enormous sects like, say, Roman Catholicism within Christianity or Shi'a in Islam, but that's still quite a total--and even that doesn't include the enormous number of people who have essentially personal, idiosyncratic spiritual belief systems.\n\nGood luck working this question out.  But the important thing to know is this:  anyone telling you there's only One True Faith is not going to help you answer this question, because your question is about information-seeking, and that answer is about bigotry and proselytizing.  That may be mandatory in some faiths, but it's not very educationally helpful in understanding the family of world religions.  I would encourage you to check out the sites below to learn more about other faiths.
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Horyu-ji Temple \nJapan
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Just come back from a Buddhist temple 1 hour ago!Had a visiting monk from California giving a sermon on morality!\nSo what goes on in the temple?When there is no function devotees might come and do meditation.Not much decoration,but we have a big Buddha image with neon light behind the head!You are welcome to visit any of the Buddhist temple!
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it depends on what route you want to do... nature vs nuture.. is a on going debate..you can also compare and constrats the beliefs of a certain religion.. or lets see...you can make easy and compare and contrast 2 different states comapring thier different attributes and contrasting as well
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As far as I know each temple is unique and there is no special set up required. The idols and such depend on the Goddess or God to whom the temple is dedicated. There is usually a prayer area and an area where devotees and poor people can get food [prasad] that has been blessed by God. Many south Indian temples also have side temples to the snake God within the premises.\n\nI THINK you were talking about a Hindu temple?
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Brilliant. Shintoism is the only religion I actually respect. It's all about respect and respecting nature and is truly peaceful unlike all those confessing to be peaceful. And there aren't any shinto religious zealots as seen in so many other religions. Go here, because this link is very objective and should tell you all.\n\nI'll give you a summary taken from link:\n---------------------------------------------------\nShintoism is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami (gods). Some kami are local and can be regarded as the spiritual being/spirit or genius of a particular place, but others represent major natural objects and processes: for example, Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, or Mount Fuji. Shinto is an animistic belief system.\n\nThe most immediately striking theme in the Shinto religion is a great love and reverence for nature. Thus, a waterfall, the moon, or just an oddly shaped rock might come to be regarded as a kami; so might charismatic persons or more abstract entities like growth and fertility. As time went by, the original nature-worshipping roots of the religion, while never lost entirely, became attenuated and the kami took on more reified and anthropomorphic forms, with a formidable corpus of myth attached to them. (See also: Japanese mythology.) The kami, however, are not transcendent deities in the usual Western and Indian sense of the word. Although divine, they are close to humanity; they inhabit the same world as we do, make the same mistakes as we do, and feel and think the same way as we do. Those who died would automatically be added to the rank of kami regardless of their human doings. (It is thought that one can become a ghost under certain circumstances involving unsettled disputes in life.) Belief is not a central aspect in Shinto, and proper observation of ritual is more important than whether one "truly believes" in the ritual. Thus, even those believing other religions may be venerated as kami after death, if there are Shinto believers who wish them to be.
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Hindu's worship in Mandir (temple), Sikhs worship in Gurudwara (don't know the name in english). At home worship is very common.
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Shintoes.  you pinbrain.\n\n\nThats where I put shintheads for not gettingthere act together.\n\n\n\n\naLLA IS BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11\n\n\n\nMOON  GOD'S  RULE*\n\n\n\n\nI'M  dA  CHIEF  MOON GOD.  i RULE.  PHOOL.\n\n\n.
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1)  Mount Fuji in Japan.  Konohanasakuya, now revered as goddess Sengen, is the Shinto deity of the Sacred Mountain of Mount Fuji\n\n2)  The Francis Scott Key Bridge is in Maryland.  It opened in 1977
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Not much if any.  In some cases, I'd say the only\neffective diff is "tax-exempt status" but cases differ.\nMormons were a 19th C cult, look at 'em now.  \n\nCult: A group or doctrine with religious, philosophical or cultural identity.\n\nCultic:  Pertaining to a cult or the methods of cults; of or related to organized religion and public worship. \n\nReligion (one of several definitions): Anything that involves the association of people in a manner resembling a religious institution or cult.
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Well it is interesting that you ask that. My brother who is not mormon recently married a mormon. They were married in the temple and we were not alowed to attend because we are not mormon. We asked what the big deal was and we were told that the temple is considered a sacred ground for the worship of mormons to their god and that non mormons entering this temple curses the belief of the church. I know it sounds ridiculous but that is part of there religion and so be it I guess. I sure am glad I am not mormon.
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i'm a shintoist in japan, it's basically quite different from christianty.  shinto has multiple deities(or parts of one extreme existence); they live with us; you will be one after death; they also train themselves to get mentally higher.  we also have "seances," the number is rare, though. they get possessed with our ancestors, and we are allowed to talk with them.  of course we can get information that the "seances" themselves cannot have known before.
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Koizumi is a total prat! He really should stop visiting Yasukuni - it's not like it makes any difference to most Japanese people...!!\n\nIt's totally true that only a few people who are 'commemorated' there were actually convicted war criminals - the bulk of the soldiers were perfectly normal men, and it's also important to remember that until certain insane actions in China the Japanese military actually had a very good reputation!  In other words, they were NOT all a bunch of psychos...!\n\nYou must also remember that Yasukuni shrine doesn't actually have any human remains in it, so if Koizumi WANTS to pray for lost soldiers he could do it somewhere else! He can't have another shrine made though, because it's against the constitution for the government to have anything to do with religion - ANOTHER reason for him to stop going! One or two regional courts in Japan have actually accused Koizumi of breaking the constitution (if that's the right way to describe it?!) by making a public display of visiting a religious place, but nothing has actually been DONE to stop him!\n\nAnother important point is that until the current head priest took charge of Yasukuni there were NO convicted war criminals represented at the shrine!! Since then the Emperor of Japan has never visited the shrine, although he did before. (I don't know if he can hold out if the government puts pressure on him though - he's just a grinning puppet!) And this head priest REFUSES to remove the criminals - which would actually solve all the problems, because that's what all the fuss is about!!
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There is a big difference between 'faith' & 'religion.'\n\nReligions are man-made concepts, dogmas, institutions, hierarchies, etc. None of them will save you.\n\nWhat God wants is a personal relationship based on individual faith.\n\nFollow the way of the Torah-observant Messiah who is the only Savior.