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Japan's Shinto religion is going global and attracting online followers

  • Written by Kaitlyn Ugoretz, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Japan's Shinto religion is going global and attracting online followersA Shinto priest performs a ritual at an altar.Leo Laporte/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

American Kit Cox, 35, works as an electrical engineer and enjoys biking and playing piano. But what some might consider surprising about Cox, who was raised as Methodist, is that she practices the Japanese religion known as Shinto.

While Cox’s interest in Shinto was...

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