일본 신도 속 샤머니즘 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to gain an in depth understanding of exactly what role the Japanese Shinto can play in the Japanese folk belief that seems to be no doctrine and system, and how it might affect on our Shamanism. Shinto, or the way of the gods, is the oldest religious faith of the Japanese people based on the aboriginal worship of nature and ancestors. Although Shinto has been recognized as a type of religion in Japan worldwide, Korean Folk Beliefs has been regarded as useless and once dismissed as a superstition. For this, the aim of this thesis is an especially pressing issue considering Japanese Shinto would be one of ideological perspectives left in our reality. More the study is to identify the present status of the Imperial Shinto which has achieved the most significant changes between ancient Shinto in Shinto history. Here, Ancient Shinto can make a Jingi system(神祇制度) using a private congregation at that time as a political base. Briefly, in the first part, it is formatted to develop Shamanism and established itself in Japan and the Emperor does the priest king role. Furthermore, it induced a public shrine the Buddhist temples at that time. In conclusion, the thesis draws on Japanese Shinto in Japanese folk belief would be essential ideological perspective which should be adequate enough to incorporate a foreign civilization in the traditional culture (shrine) in order to integrate all. This thesis hopes to offer insights on the fact that Japanese Shinto is a kind of well exposed political perspective which has been accumulated in realistic cultural settings (folk beliefs) and it should get noticed by academic circles.