Core tenet of Shintoheld by most

This world is the arena.

Shinto barely maps the afterlife; the shrine faces harvests, births, exams, and floods.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Shinto is emphatically this-worldly: it has festivals for planting, harvest, new businesses, new cars, and school examinations, and it has almost nothing to say about what happens after death — which is why the majority of Japanese people are married in Shinto rites and buried in Buddhist ones without any sense of contradiction. The arrangement is old and stable, and Japanese survey respondents frequently decline to call themselves religious while participating in both.

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