ABSTRACT
WE could not begin a survey of the Shintô sects (Kyôha Shintô) better than by quoting extensively from an article published in July 1932 by the National Association of Shintô priests in the Journal of the Kokugakuin [Shintô] University, the Kokugakuin Zasshi:
‘There are many points of similarity between Jinja Shintô and Sectarian Shintô. In popular opinion, the two are frequently confused and the real differences are often unknown. There are even cases in which writers have given erroneous expositions of the supposed differences. It is highly important to the strengthening of the institutions of the Shintô temples that the real differences between State Shintô (now Jinja Shintô) and Sectarian Shintô be made plain.
