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Result of Shinto Essay Competition 2007
Sponsored by the International Shinto Foundation
(Announced on October 2007) |
10 contributors (2 from India, 1 from Canada,
1 from Germany, 1 from U.K., 1 from Uruguay, and 4 from U.S.A.)
participated in the Shinto Essay Competition 2007. The number
of entrants increased this year, since the designated essay
topics were interesting. Their essays were carefully read
and evaluated by 8 jurors from Japan, Germany, Norway, the
United Kingdom, and the United States, 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 have decided to honor the excellent
and good essays by one 1st prize, one 2nd prize, one 3rd prize,
and two encouraging prizes for promising entrants. The prize
winners will receive the bank check of the awarded amount
in due time by post. All the contributors will receive four
volumes of the collection of the awarded essays in the past.
The contributed essays belong to and will be published by
the International Shinto Foundation, Inc.
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This year's subjects :
1. Comparing Shinto
myths and other myths.
(We look forward to essays comparing Greek and other myths with
those found in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki.)
2.
Defining features of monotheism and polytheism.
(Students’ essays should seek to highlight what sets monotheistic
creeds and their practices apart from polytheism.)
3. The spirit of Shinto
and the martial arts.
(We invite critical reflections on places of Shinto, its symbols
and practices in the field of martial arts.)
| Prize Winners |
First Prize
(US$1,000) |
Katie Freund
(University of Toronto, Canada)
" Violence and Sacrifice: The Role of the Heroic
Victim in Greek and Japanese Mythology"
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Second Prize
(US$500) |
Samuel Gething
(SOAS, University of London, U.K.)
" A Comparison of Shinto and World Mythology"
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Third
Prize
(US$300) |
Katja Esser
(Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
" Menacing and Poisonous --- Snakes in Japanese
and Greek Myths" |
| Encouraging Prize
(US$100) |
Diana Lee (Rice
University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
" Shintoism and Greek Mythology: A Study of Similarities
and Their Fundamental Differences" |
| Encouraging Prize
(US$100) |
Garrett Schneider
(Macalester College, Minnesota, U.S.A.)
" Gotteranzahl: Comapring Monotheism and Polytheism" |
Submitted essays belong to and will be published
by the International Shinto Foundation,Inc.
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