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500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipin@: Postcolonial Perspectives Book Panel

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1: Ecclesiological Investigations Unit

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Cristina Lledo Gomez, BBI Australian Institute for Theological Education, Presiding

Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)

This session features the co-edited volume by Cristina Lledo Gomez, Agnes Brazal and Ma. Marilou Ibita , “500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines and the Global Filipino/a: Postcolonial Perspectives” published in February, 2024. Panelists will discuss issues around indigeneity, being Filipino/a, and Christian colonialism. 

 

Papers

  • S. Lily Mendoza, Oakland University

    Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux

    Abstract

    In her essay, S. Lily Mendoza  grapples with the question: What happens when the “one true story” encounters other faith stories? Subtitled "Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection," her work in this volume tracks her autobiographical journeying out of the absolutisms of her born-again Christian formation into the radicalizing challenge of her schooling into deep ancestry and indigenous tutelage.

  • Antonio D. Sison, Catholic Theological Union

    Indigenous Inculturation: A Hermeneutics of Serendipity

    Abstract

    Beyond the uni-directional notion of inculturation moored on an older, Eurocentric missiology, I turn the prism at a new angle to reveal "serendipity," that epiphany of surprise and sagacity, as the nexus of the divine-human encounter; this allowed for the flourishing of Indigenous culture’s creative genius notwithstanding the cruel sentence of Spanish colonization and its aftermath. Serendipitously, Manila's renowned Black Nazarene devotion offers creative-liberative space for cultural memory and validation in the form of communitas and hidden transcripts that dance alongside the more structured, doctrinally based practices of “official religion," decentering ecclesiology in the inclusive, prophetic-liberating spirit of Lumen Gentium's "People of God."  

     

  • James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary

    Re-Baptizing Spirit in Land and Ancestry: An Approach for Un-Doing Christian Colonialism

    Abstract

    As a white settler colonial educator/poet, partnered with a diasporan Filipina activist/scholar, and schooled by Black activist challenges over more than three decades of living and working in inner city Detroit, my work seeks to learn from the margins. In this piece, indigenous Filipino wisdom in re-baptizing a local Manobo community in older traditions of dwelling on Mount Apo, provoke a re-imagination of Jesus’ own “immersion” in his local ecozone, claimed by a storm, guided by a dove, tested by rocks, as the prerequisite to resisting settler colonialism in Roman occupied Palestine.

     

  • JAMINA VESTA JUGO,

    Inang Diyos Inang Bayan The Virgin Mary and Filipino Identity

    Abstract

    Jamina's chapter in this book outliness the deployment of major Marian narratives at different stages in the Philippines' political development, with a special focus on how they impact, but are also claimed by, Filipinas.  She shows how Marian motherhood promotes but can also exclude Filipinas' empowerment in both public and private, with the latest iteration of these dynamics at play in the OFW phenomenon as well as the latest national elections.

Audiovisual Requirements

Resources

LCD Projector and Screen

Full Papers Available

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Session Length

2 Hours

Schedule Preference

Sunday, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Tags

#colonialism #indigeneity #Christianity #Philippines #migrant