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Secular Shrine Theory or Jinja hishūkyōron (神社非宗教論) was a religious policy and political theory that arose in Japan during the 19th and early 20th centuries due to the separation of church and state of the Meiji Government.[1] It was the idea that Shinto Shrines were secular in their nature rather than religious,[2] and that Shinto was not a religion, but rather a secular set of Japanese national traditions. This was linked to State Shinto and the idea that the state controlling and enforcing Shinto was not a violation of freedom of religion. It was subject to immense debate over this time and ultimately declined and disappeared during the Shōwa era.[3]
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^Rots, Aike P. (2017). "Public Shrine Forests? Shinto, Immanence, and Discursive Secularization". Japan Review (30): 179–205. ISSN 0915-0986. JSTOR 44259466.
^均, 新田 (2020-08-10). "加藤玄智の国家神道観". 宗教法研究 (in Japanese) (14): 199–230.
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