4 contributors (1 from Japan, 2 from India
and 1 from U.S.A.) participated the Shinto Essay Competition
2008. The number of entrants decreased this year, perhaps
due to the fact that the designated essay topics were not
so easy to deal with Their essays were carefully read and
evaluated by 8 jurors from Japan, Germany, Norway, UK and
USA who are distinguished scholars in Japanese cultural studies.
We are pleased to announce the result of their judgments as
follows. In accordance with the judgment points we regret
to have decided not to award the 1st prize, but honor the
good essays by one 2nd prize, one 3rd prize, and two encouraging
awards. The essays belong to and will be published by the
Shinto Kokusai Gakkai, Inc.
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This year's subjects :
1. What defines the
thought and practice of “Yoshida Shinto”(Unique, peerless Shinto)?
2. Discuss
the attitude towards Western thought and Western culture of
any “kokugaku” (national learning) scholars of the late 18th
or early 19th centuries.
3.
The “shinbutsu bunri” (Separation of Kami and Buddhas) laws
of 1868 transformed Japanese religious culture once and for
all.
| Prize Winners |
First Prize
(US$1,000) |
N/A
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Second Prize
(US$500) |
Justin
Humphreys (U.S.A.)
“Esotericism, Lineage, and Nation in Yoshida Shinto” |
Third
Prize
(US$300) |
Soumitra
Subinaya (India)
“What defines the thought and practice of Yoshida Shinto?
― from the perspective of a scholar of the 21st Century” |
| Encouraging Prize
(US$100) |
Nidhi Bhatia
(India)
“What defines the thought and practice of Yoshida Shinto
(Unique, peerless Shinto)? |
| Encouraging Prize
(US$100) |
Yoshioka
Nobuko (Japan)
“Neo Shinbutsu-Shugo” |
Submitted essays belong to and will be published
by the Shinto Kokusai Gakkai,Inc.
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