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Shinto: There are a healthy number of writers who produce fiction and none fiction dealing with Shinto. Shinto has about 4.0 million adherents. They have a number of religious texts that are free on this website.

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The Chinese Pope – The Vatican names a Cardinal the Pope, when he is imprisoned by the Communist Chinese. (Shinto Writers Prize, 2019)
Tobit – A pious Jew in Amsterdam finds a daughter-in-law and confronts evil on a number of levels.
Reconquista Cowboy – A drug-addicted and lost modern-day Cowboy feels obliged to fight the Mexicans when they invade Texas.
Quanah Parker’s Hereford Bull – Quanah Parker must fetch his Hereford bull back when it’s stolen by corrupt Texas Rangers.
McMurtry’s Typewriter – Thieves plot to steal Larry McMurtry‘s typewriters and Lonesome Dove memorabilia from the museum.
Johnny Marijuanaseed – A kind hearted gentle soul spreads marijuana seeds.
Lenin’s Body – Two drunks steal the body of Lenin the night before it’s supposed to be buried.
Yamashita’s Wedding – A conman and a notorious liar film four film and Yamashita’s wedding during the Battle of Manila.
The Baseball Muse – A Japanese woman leaves a career as a geisha and rehabilitates troubled MLB baseball players.
Streets of Manila – When a Mexican cartel sends an elite squad of hitmen to Manila, the President of the Philippines fights back!
Permanent Girlfriend – The first Covid-19 Quarantine romantic comedy.
Roosevelt Hotel – In the future, clones of celebrities are used like library books, people can some to the hotel and check them out like a book.
The Truth about the Chupacabra – Texas professors learn the Chupacabra aren’t mangy coyotes but extremely shy extraterrestrials.
The Tarantino Heist – A Tarantino look-alike makes a film in Russia. ( Writers Prize, 2016)
A Year in Russia Without Women – The men in Russia panic when ALL 72 million Russian women disappear.
The Pirate Hunters – Navy SEALS don’t go on leave but chase Somali pirates.
B-25 – POWs, in World War, must assemble a B-25 and escape Japan before August 6, 1945.
The 10th Cavalry – A Black cavalry unit must fight Comanche, Confederates, starvation and thirst in West Texas.
the little black dress – History of Russia as told be the owners of a dress handed down through the century.
The Fisherman’s Wife – A Filipino must deal with the reality that his wife is becoming famous. (Shinto Writers Prize, 2017)
The West Philippine Sea – A transgender woman is treated harshly but when her fishing boat is sunk she must chose to save the crew of let them drown..
Slab City – Homesless and unfortunate souls live rent-free in the California desert.
Sea and Sky – A Filipino tribe of young surfers adopt an older woman with Alzheimer’s.
Oscar Night – An actress about to quit trying gets one last break, Oscar night.
Second Grade – Islamic terrorists storm a small K-12 Oklahoma school, but the second grade resists.
500 MEALS – A resturanateur gives up cooking professionally to cook his father’s last few meals.
The New Corporate Culture – Socialism runs amok in New York City.
Comanche – Docudrama focusing on the Comanche native tribe of West Texas.
Verity’s Surfing Movie – An Ivy League professor fighting Alzheimer’s moves to Southern to try to remember her surfer son.
Unsolicited Material – Two screenwriters go to extraordinary lengths to have a producer read their script.
Tupac Lives – Topac Shakur is discovered living on the streets of Las Vegas.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – All hell breaks loose in the Iraq war.
The Puppy Mill – A dog show enthusiast is preyed upon by a corrupt sheriff’s deputy.
The Weekender – A government teacher is framed and must serve weekend in the county jail… where he learns a few things.
Dersu – A Siberian hunter is mistaken for a reform politician in Russia.
Donetsk – A Russian Admiral is assassinated in EXACTLY the same manner at John F. Kennedy was in Dallas.
Escape of the Planter – Robert Smalls, an escaped slave, steals a confederate ship and delivers it to the North.
Gelert and the Last Dog Show – A zombie apocalypse leaves only a few the young people to care for 700 dogs.
Ghost Mayor – A ghost runs for mayor of Chicago.
Anarene – Small town drug story.
Gravestones – A high school science project leads to the shocking discovery of anti-Semitism in central Texas.
Curators – Islamic librarians must move and hide millions of books before they are burns by fundamentalists.
Lev – An autistic Moscow boy must find his mother in Leningrad when he KGB father is caught up in one of Stalin’s purges.
Metro2 – When a Nazi army suddenly appears in contemporary Moscow, the President of Russia must seek shelter in the Metro.
Moscow Rocks – An all-girl-band fights the government in Russia. (Shinto Writers Prize, 2015)
Peter the Great Vampire Killer – Peter the Great fights vampires disguised as socialists and Swedes.
Pray for Rain – When a West Texas rancher prays for rain, he receives a visit from a Hollywood starlet.
Rumors – When an Afghani man is accused of helping the infidels, he must fight for his life.
Salton Sea Pet Motel – A puppy mill is operating out of a pet motel in Southern California.
Santa and the Pole Dancer – Christmas is almost canceled because of labor unrest at the North Pole.
Inside-Outside USSR – A surfer is expelled from the USSR the same day Solzhenitsyn makes his flight.
Barko Ng Republika Ng Pilipinas – A new Filipina action hero (helicopter pilot) saves her island nation first from Chinese and then Irainian invasions. (Shinto Writers Prize, 2020)

Shinto.神道,[a] also known as kami-no-michi, is a religion originating in Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan’s indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners Shintoists, although adherents rarely use that term themselves. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners.

Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami (“gods” or “spirits”), supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things. The link between the kami and the natural world has led to Shinto being considered animistic and pantheistic. The kami are worshiped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and public shrines. The latter are staffed by priests, known as kannushi, who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific kami enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and kami and to solicit the latter’s blessing. Other common rituals include the kagura ritual dances, rites of passage, and seasonal festivals. Public shrines also supply religious paraphernalia such as amulets to the religion’s adherents. Shinto does not emphasize specific moral codes although places a major conceptual focus on ensuring purity, largely by cleaning practices such as ritual washing and bathing. Shinto has no single creator or specific doctrinal text, but exists in a diverse range of localised and regional forms.

Belief in kami can be traced to the Yayoi period (300 BCE – 300 CE), although similar concepts existed during the late Jōmon period. At the end of the Kofun period (300 to 538 CE), Buddhism entered Japan and in part influenced kami veneration. Through Buddhist influence, kami came to be depicted anthropomorphically and were situated within Buddhist cosmology. Religious syncretisation made kami worship and Buddhism functionally inseparable, a process called shinbutsu-shūgō. The earliest written tradition regarding kami worship was recorded in the eighth-century Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. In ensuing centuries, shinbutsu-shūgō was adopted by Japan’s Imperial household. During the Meiji era (1868 – 1912 CE), Japan’s leadership expelled Buddhist influence from Shinto and formed State Shinto, which they utilized as a method for fomenting nationalism and imperial worship. Shrines came under growing government influence, and the emperor of Japan was elevated to a particularly high position as a kami. With the formation of the Japanese Empire in the early 20th century, Shinto was exported to other areas of East Asia. Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, Shinto was formally separated from the state.

Shinto is primarily found in Japan, where there are around 80,000 public shrines. Shinto is also practiced elsewhere, in smaller numbers. Shinto is the religion in Japan with the most adherents with second being Buddhism. Although only a minority of Japanese people identify as religious, most of the population take part in Shinto matsuri and Buddhist activities, especially festivals and seasonal events. This reflects a common view in Japanese culture that the beliefs and practices of different religions need not be exclusive. Aspects of Shinto have also been incorporated into various Japanese new religious movements.

Shinto Writer Prize Winner, 2020