Shinto

Shinto is the religion that dedicates itself to the worship of all things in nature.  All natural objects are ruled by their own god.  The rocks, trees, plants, streams, everything.  Shinto does not have a founder and it doesn't have a bible of sorts.  There isn't really a Shinto "church" either because Shinto has been ingrained in the people.  A Shinto god is called a kami.  Kami are spirits that take form of things and concepts.  The Japanese believe that humans become kami after they die and that most families revere an ancestral kami.  If the person did something extraordinary in life, their kami can have a shrine dedicated to them.

In Shinto, there is not absolute right or wrong and no one is perfect.  They believe that people are inherently good and that the evil we do is because of evil spirits that come and push us into doing bad things.  The purpose of most Shinto rituals is to keep the evil spirits away.  Shinto shrines are the homes of kami and a place to worship.  Shinto festivals are done to show the kami the outside (real) world.    Shinto priests can be male or female and they can marry and have children.  They often live on the grounds of the shrines and they have assistants called miko.  Miko normally are the unmarried daughters of the priests.

Today, Shinto is done by either visiting a shrine or by praying at a home altar.  They also sell talismans at shrines that protect against various evil spirits and that help with personal safety and good fortune.  Many weddings are performed in the Shinto style.