Although many of the religions in this class are ideas that I would think of as out of the ordinary and unusual, Shinto takes the cake for religions that are more of a mindset more than a religion – at least with the religions that we have covered in this class. Because I previously wrote about Shinto in my Philosophical research paper, I had a small understanding of it before we covered it in class. However, I learned a great deal more when we discussed it in class. I’ve found the country of Japan to be extremely interesting for quite some time now, and at one point I planned a vacation to Tokyo. That vacation ended up not happening, but, when I was doing research on the city, I found that there are several shrines spread out throughout the
