This summer I made a brief pagan tour of Britain, starting with the most famous site of all – Glastonbury Tor. It reaches up out of low-lying land surmounted by an ancient tower like a finger pointing heavenwards. It is … Read the rest
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Could you tell us about how you came to be a pagan?
I had been interested in Paganism for many, many years before I actually started practising it! My interest almost certainly comes from my Dad. He isn’t a Pagan … Read the rest
What’s happening in San Marino?
Green Shinto has received conflicting information concerning the curious case of a Shinto shrine in San Marino. Researcher Aike Rots, in an informative overview of the international outreach of Shinto, claims that the … Read the rest
Taishi Kato (加藤大志) is a young Shinto priest, who will be doing a postgraduate course at SOAS in London from September. His father is head priest of the Hattori Tenjingu in Toyonaka City, Osaka, recently featured in Green Shinto. While … Read the rest
The Shinto Foundation has a free fieldwork program in Kyoto on Jun. 11th, to do with legends about the establishment of Heian-kyo. The fieldwork will take place between 12.00 and 16.00, with trips to Sudo Shrine and the wonderful Sekizan
A Manhattan-based organisation called Globus Washitsu, which exhibits contemporary Japanese crafts and art such as kimono, brings news of a wedding ceremony being put on by an intriguing Shinto priest from Kyushu. According to the press release, he spent … Read the rest
An article in the Japan Times covers the five foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) priests who are currently known to Green Shinto. Much of the information for the article came from this blog, though the author has made a few mistakes and … Read the rest