Shintoism

Shinto is not based on anybody on any body of religious law. Shinto belief revolves around "Kami" or deities. Kami can be related to natural forces, elements or animals. This all i know.

There is no such thing as a Shinto god. There are, however, Kami, which are more like feelings or spirits than gods. (The kanji, or Chinese character, for "kami" loosely translates to god when the suffix "sama" is added. Thus, kami-sama means god.)

Shintoism started in eastern japan and then spread out to the middle east. Shintoism is the oldest surviving Japanese religion. It came even before Buddhism.

Shintoism is an ancient religion that originated in Japan. Its followers believe that spiritual powers exist in the natural world in the form of kami, or spirits, which live in animals, plants, stones, mountains, rivers, people and even the dead.

Torii gates is the term for a sacred gate in a Shinto shrine.

Shinto is an ancient Japanese religion.

Ancestral ties are their main focus, religious wise. Bringing honor to and upholding the honor of their families.

Historically, the leader of Shintoism was the Japanese Emperor himself, who was believed to be a God-King. With Hirohito's declaration that he was not a god in the aftermath of World War II, Shintoism has become increasingly decentralized. The most prominent group today that determines Shintoism is the Association of Shinto Shrines. Its leadership includes the sōsai (総裁), the head priestess of the Ise Shrine, presently Atsuko Ikeda. The tōri (統理) is Kuniaki Kuni, and the post of sōchō (総長) is currently held by Masami Yatabe, the chief priest of the Mishima Shrine.

Number of Confucianism followers in the world: 0.09% (6,111,056 people).

Shinto hasn't really spread. Over the years, Shinto has been practiced almost exclusively in Japan. Most people who practice Shinto in other parts of the world are Japanese in heritage.

In Modern times, Shintoism is largely silent on the issue of same-sex marriage, and followers generally hold general Japanese cultural views on homosexuality.

In history, there was no religious opposition to homosexuality in Japan in non-Buddhist kami tradition.

During the Tokugawa period, some of the Shinto gods, especially Hachiman, Myoshin, Shinmei and Tenjin, "came to be seen as guardian deities of nanshoku" (male-male love). Tokugawa-era writer Ihara Saikaku joked that since there are no women for the first three generations in the genealogy of the gods found in the Nihon Shoki, the gods must have enjoyed homosexual relationships-which Saikaku argued was the real origin of nanshoku.

it was organized in 1868

Kami are spirits that live in local natural objects (rocks, trees, streams). In Shintoism, various kami are prayed to for sustenance and assistance.

In modern Japanese, Kami is typically used to refer to God.

Laozi, the founder of Taoism (or Daoism), was born China in 604 BCE. Taoism is widely practised in China. It is particularly strong among the rural population, but has support among urban Chinese. There are also Taoist temples in many other countries, wherever Chinese people have migrated.

Shinto is the indigenous religion of Japan. Like Hinduism, it is not credited to any particular founder.

The Japanese gave their religious beliefs a name, in order to preserve the religion, while Buddhism & Confucianism were entering into their country.

the nihongi and the kojiki

Shinto (神道 Shintō?) or kami-no-michiis the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past.[1] Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 7th and 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified "Shinto religion", but rather to disorganized folklore, history, and mythology.[2] Shinto today is a term that applies to public shrines suited to various purposes such as war memorials, harvest festivals, romance, and historical monuments, as well as various sectarian organizations. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian Periods.[2]

It depends on how you count it. Most Japanese (roughly 80% of the 135 million population -- 108 million) are Shintoists in name, but rarely pray and only visit a Shinto Shrine once or twice a year (usually for New Year festivals).

I would suggest that a principal similarity between these three traditions is that they are all non-theistic (i.e., they do not make any assertion one way or another about God, in contrast to atheism, which asserts that there is no God). While each of these traditions has deities (divine figures, archetypes or persons), these deities are not regarded as the Creator. Instead, the entire Cosmos (including the illusion of time) is regarded as beginningless.

Shamanism is not a religion. It is a anthropological description of many religions that have some traits in common such as people who go into trance states and communicate or traveling or guide souls in or heal with the spirit world. There are many differences within each religion and to lump them together is to devalue their true meaning to the believers of these religions. They are not universalizing religions although as almost all religions they make universal claims about the nature of reality as they see it.

Its more of a Ethnic religion that tried to link the spiritual realm with the physical world, so then that makes it also universalizing. Its both actually, but more of a ethnic religion.

Shintoists worship thousands of gods and goddesses, spirits and ghosts. They also believe in the reverence (not worship) of their ancestors. And they believe in demons and evil spirits to be avoided.