Essay Competition

Shinto Essay Competition 2000 was participated by 16 contributors from 4 countries. The essays were carefully read and evaluated by 6 jurors, who are members of the ISF's Board of Trustees. We are pleased to announce the result of their judgements as follows. Due to very close judgement points we have decided to distinguish the excellent and good essays by one 1st prize, one 2nd prize, two 3rd prizes and one additional encouraging prize. The essays belong to and will be published by the International Shinto Foundation.

Prize Winner
First Prize (US$1,000)	Alexei Batchourine (Russia) "The Shinto Concept of Kami"
Second Prize (US$500)	Michael R. Smith (U.S.A.) "The Concept of Kami in Shinto"
Third Prize (US$300)	Holly Marie Leahy (U.S.A.) "Shinto-Buddhist Interactions in the History of Japan"
Third Prize (US$300)	Amy Wittenberg (U.S.A.) "Shinto Ritual and the Story of Sugawara no Michizane"
Encouraging Prize (US$200)	Jacques Theron (South Africa) "Shinto as an Indigenous Religion"

For your information, apart from the above English language Shinto Essay Competition, ISF organized also the Chinese language Shinto Essay Competition 2000, in which 9 Essays participated. 5 Chinese scholars specialized in Japanese cultural studies have carefully read them all and judged with the result of no first prize winner, one second prize winner, two third prize winners and two encouraging prize winners. The Chinese essays were already edited and published at the Zhejiang University Institute of Japanese Cultural Studies, led by Prof. Wang Shou Hua.

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