Here are my notes of the 'Old Craft' shrine discussion and some additional thoughts:

• A shrine is a locus where people apprehend and engage the sacred
• A temple is not a shrine
• A temple may contain one or more shrines
• A temple sanctuary is a shrine
• An altar is not a shrine
• A shrine may contain an altar
• Offerings are made at an altar, or if there is no altar, placed near a shrine
• Shrines serve a social group
• Family
• Clan
• Community
• Association
• Shrines have a magical/religious function
• Apotropaic rituals
• Reverent petitions
• Expressions of gratitude
• Devotions
• Blessings
• Shrines have areas of restricted access/delineated sacred space
• Issues of purity
• Purification rituals
• Within the restricted area is a focus representing:
• Forces
• Processes
• Events
• Venerated ancestors
• Within the restricted area is the actual focus:
• Places
• Objects
• Plants
• Animals
• Venerated living people
• Shrines require regular tending & attending
• Have a caretaker
• The caretaker sees to the storage, or removal & ritual disposal of old offerings
• Have offerings — offerings may be:
• Food
• Valued objects
• Unusual objects
• Vegetal
• Animal
• Entertainment — song, music, dance, plays, sports & contests
• Grati tude — prayer & symbolic objects
• Veneration
• Attention — meditation & praise
• Once started, tending/attending should not diminish or stop