The Spanish arrived in the Americas and brought many parts of their catholic culture with them seeing a massive rise in the home shrine throughout this area, however this now started the shift away from the traditional purely religious home altar. Now they had begun to evolve as a place to pay respect to past family members (Malcom, 2007)
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Japanese Buddhist culture created the Butsudan to protect their religious icons. It soon became law in Japan for these to be kept within a household and was reinforced by police (Malcom, 2003)
The shift that begun in the 1800’s had continued and now home shrines have taken on a life of their own, combining different cultures, religions and practises. Technology is now involved more heavily then ever and some forms of social media are being used as online shrines
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