The Way Forward? Shinto and a Twenty-First Century Japanese Ecological Attitude

The thematic trinity of this publication – nature, space and the sacred – can be seen truly to converge in Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan. In this chapter I hope to convince the reader that the beliefs and values exhibited in Shinto spirituality can play a fundamental role in developing a post-modern Japanese ecological attitude fit for the needs of twenty-first-century Japan.