Shintoism has more followers in Japan than any other religion including Buddhism. A polytheistic and animistic religion, Shintoism, like other Eastern faiths, includes the practice of meditation and prayer, and Japan boasts 100,000 Shinto shrines. But Shintoism has no central authority and its practices vary greatly among its adherents . Altho possibly apocryphal, it is said that Joseph Campbell, the famous academic who wrote The Power of Myth, reported the following...