岐阜市立女子短期大学研究紀要第60輯（平成23年3月）
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Comparative Religious Views: Japan and Polynesia
| 山田利一 |
| Toshikazu Yamada |
Abstract
The Japanese are believed to have a unique religious culture. But it is not only the Japanese that believe in varied gods and spirits. The Polynesians including native Hawaiians share similar religious attitudes with the Japanese. To be concrete, the Japanese and the Pacific islanders distinguish themselves from other humanity in that they respectively believe in man-gods and think some objects, either natural and artificial, divine. Such a religious attitude is considered to be the archaic psychological trait that human beings once universally held toward the dead and anything mysterious around us.