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Sep 24, 2021 · This paper argues for the appreciation of Filipino folk religiosity as part of cultivating authentic faith expressions among Filipinos. It presents historical, anthropological, sociocultural, and theological views on significant folk religious groups, traditions, and practices in the Philippines, including but not limited to the millenarian movements and popular Catholic feasts.
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Sep 24, 2021 · Folk religiosity is embedded in the Filipino culture and permeates the Filipino Catholic. way of expressing their faith. However, when it comes to teaching religion in the academic. setting, folk ...
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The Philippines is predominantly Catholic. According to the latest Philippine census, at least 81% of Filipinos categorize themselves as Catholics. The rest are protestants (about 11%), Muslims (6%), and others. Consequently, several in-depth studies on the subject, written by both local and foreign authors, interchangeably use Filipino folk ...
1. Introduction. Folk religiosity is embedded in the Filipino culture and permeates the Filipino Catholic way of expressing their faith. However, when it comes to teaching religion in the academic setting, folk religious practices are often left in the byways, far from being appreciated and included as a course topic.
This paper argues for the appreciation of Filipino folk religiosity as part of cultivating authentic faith expressions among Filipinos. It presents historical, anthropological, sociocultural, and theological views on significant folk religious groups, traditions, and practices in the Philippines, including but not limited to the millenarian movements and popular Catholic feasts.
attenuated in locally sanctioned practices, while urban Catholicism is one in which indigenous beliefs are attenuated in Church-allowed, though not sanctioned, rites. Contemporary Orientation of Functional Catholicism These two forms need to be recognized if we are to understand the dynamics of contemporary Filipino Catholic values and behavior ...
folk Catholicism as opposed to pre- or non-Christian beliefs. The fist point is that, in its Mediterranean folk version, Catholicism, as Max Weber said (1963, 138), tends toward a polytheistic hd of belief sys- tem. My second assertion is that the Spanish missionaries, who were
