Matsuri: The Communal Ecstasy of Sacred Festivals and Portable Shrines (Mikoshi)
Executive Briefing: The Sacred Recharging of the Neighborhood A Matsuri is the somatic and energetic climax of Shinto communal life. Parading the Kami throug…
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Executive Briefing: The Sacred Recharging of the Neighborhood A Matsuri is the somatic and energetic climax of Shinto communal life. Parading the Kami throug…
Executive Briefing: The Regalia of Japanese Monarchy The Imperial Regalia of Japan (Sanshu no Jingi)—the Yata no Kagami (mirror of wisdom), Kusanagi no Tsu…
Executive Briefing: The Deep Sigh of the Heart Articulated by 18th-century scholar Motoori Norinaga, Mono no Aware is the melancholic aesthetic sensitivity t…
Executive Briefing: The Political Flashpoint of Memory Established in 1869 to enshrine war dead, Yasukuni Shrine was central to pre-1945 State Shinto (*Kokka…
Executive Briefing: The Ethics of Belief In 1869, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined Agnosticism not as a creed, but as a methodological rule: it is morall…
Executive Briefing: Philo’s Razor Published posthumously in 1779, David Hume’s masterpiece dismantled the teleological argument from design, proving that inf…
Executive Briefing: The Greatest Cultural Event When the Madman cries in The Gay Science (1882) that “God is dead! And we have killed him!”, Nietzsche is not…
Executive Briefing: The Insoluble Theological Paradox Philosopher J.L. Mackie formulated the logical problem of evil: the triad of God’s omnipotence, God’s o…
Executive Briefing: Goodness for Its Own Sake Secular humanism affirms that ethics, human dignity, and compassion are grounded in our shared biological natur…
Executive Briefing: The Celestial Teapot Analogy In 1952, Bertrand Russell illustrated that the burden of proof rests on the person making unfalsifiable meta…