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Happy Science puts a cartoonish spin on religion

Anime Evangelism
For thousands of years, art has provided an avenue for religions to represent the divine. But Kofuku no Kagaku, the neo-Buddhist organization known to English-speakers as Happy Science, must be the only religious group in Japan—and perhaps the entire world—to use anime as its primary means of recruitment. Since 1997, Happy Science has produced a new...

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