{"id":1154,"date":"2015-12-28T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2015-12-28T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T20:11:28","slug":"9-obscure-religions-youve-never-heard-of-even-if-you-have-a-degree-in-religious-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"9 Obscure Religions You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of &#8211; Even if you have a degree in religious studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at this slideshow article with a &#8220;you won&#8217;t gotcha me!&#8221; attitude, I have a Ph.D. in Religion thank you very much. But sure enough, they got me with the second one. I&#8217;ve never heard of a certain Japanese sect they describe.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese religion mentioned was also fuzzy for me, but I do recall studying it years ago in comparative religions.<\/p>\n<p>See if they can catch you! \u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Galleries\/Obscure-Religions<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the vivid photographs while you&#8217;re at it.<\/p>\n<p>+Katia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at this slideshow article with a &#8220;you won&#8217;t gotcha me!&#8221; attitude, I have a Ph.D. in Religion thank you very much. But sure enough, they got me with the second one. I&#8217;ve never heard of a certain Japanese sect they describe. The Vietnamese religion mentioned was also fuzzy for me, but I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=1154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9 Obscure Religions You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of &#8211; Even if you have a degree in religious studies<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,128],"tags":[282,283],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordained-ministers-priests-rabbis-clergy","category-religion","tag-religious-studies","tag-world-religions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}