{"id":460,"date":"2011-04-14T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.tenrikyo.org\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-04-22T01:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T01:27:51","slug":"cnn-highlights-tenrikyos-postquake-relief-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.tenrikyo.org\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"CNN Blog Highlights Tenrikyo’s Postquake Relief Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On March 22, CNN\u2014a U.S.-based international broadcasting company\u2014posted on its \u201cBelief\u201d blog an article entitled \u201cJapanese New Religions’ Big Role in Disaster Response.\u201d This article\u2014which covers relief activities conducted by Japanese New Religions in the areas stricken by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake\u2014sheds light on relief work carried out by Tenrikyo’s Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps while explaining the teaching of hinokishin, <\/em>which informs its relief activities.<\/p>\n

This article was contributed by Dr. Barbara Ambros, associate professor of Religions of Asia in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A prominent scholar of Japanese religions, she also serves as president of the Society for the Study of Japanese Religions, which is based in the U.S. As a scholar studying pilgrimage and religious sites, she has visited Tenrikyo Church Headquarters twice before and is planning to visit there again this summer as part of her research trip to Japan.<\/p>\n

In sharing what she sought to convey in her article, she said: \u201cI was disappointed that the news media across the world including Japan provided such scarce coverage of the concrete activities of religious organizations in the wake of the disaster. I wrote my article to highlight the diversity of Japanese New Religions\u2014religious groups that came into being in nineteenth-century Japan\u2014and to show people concretely what some religious organizations were actually doing for humanitarian support.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read her article, please visit http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/22\/my-take-japanese-new-religions-big-role-in-disaster-response\/<\/a>\u00a0or click on the above picture for a screenshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 22, CNN\u2014a U.S.-based international broadcasting company\u2014posted on its \u201cBelief\u201d blog an article entitled \u201cJapanese New Religions’ Big Role in Disaster Response.\u201d This article\u2014which covers relief activities conducted by Japanese New Religions in the areas stricken by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake\u2014sheds light on relief work carried out by\u2026<\/p>\n

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