{"id":2908,"date":"2011-01-20T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2020-03-26T05:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:34:05","slug":"new-horizons-in-evangelization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/new-horizons-in-evangelization\/","title":{"rendered":"New horizons in evangelization"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2909\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Toro Benten\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fig_pos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fig_pos2-353x500.jpg\" alt=\"Toro Benten, goddess of art, wisdom and absolute territory. Note the cute little fang.\" title=\"Toro Benten\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2909\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toro Benten, goddess of art, wisdom and absolute territory. Note the cute little fang.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How do you entice youngsters to visit places of worship? If you are  the chief monk of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ryohoji.jp\/top.html\">Japanese Buddhist temple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnngo.com\/tokyo\/life\/tokyos-anime-temple-brings-buddhism-otaku-generation-282935\">you embrace anime\/manga culture<\/a>, with anime-style statues of a Japanese deity, cosplaying temple maidens, J-pop tunes and videos, decorated vans and a maid caf\u00e9. Somehow, I don&#8217;t think this is likely to catch on in the Catholic Diocese of Wichita.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u4e86\u6cd5\u5bfa\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u30bd\u30f3\u30b0\u300c\u5bfa\u30ba\u30c3\u30ad\u30e5\u30f3\uff01\u611b\u306e\u4e86\u6cd5\u5bfa\uff01\u300dCD\u590f\u30b3\u30dfCM\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fV2_wrTWgKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/beneaththetangles.wordpress.com\/\">Beneath the Tangles<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: On a related note, Ken the Brickmuppet visited <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmuppet.mee.nu\/shrinespotting_\">a certain Shinto shrine<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you entice youngsters to visit places of worship? If you are the chief monk of a Japanese Buddhist temple, you embrace anime\/manga culture, with anime-style statues of a Japanese deity, cosplaying temple maidens, J-pop tunes and videos, decorated vans and a maid caf\u00e9. Somehow, I don&#8217;t think this is likely to catch on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/new-horizons-in-evangelization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New horizons in evangelization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-KU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78413,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/78413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}