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Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines

Wiegele, Katharine Leone

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Title
Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines
Author(s)
Wiegele, Katharine Leone
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Saul, Mahir
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Social Structure and Development
Language
eng
Abstract
This study argues that these Filipinos are transforming popular Catholic religiosity to cope with the economic and social realities of their times. Old Catholic notions of suffering, leftist ideologies of struggle and oppression, and old forms of sacred power and mediation no longer speak to the contemporary spiritual and material needs of many Filipinos. Revealing the voice of a marginalized sector of society, El Shaddai legitimizes desires for upward mobility while changing the way in which its members conceive of those desires. It offers a context and a language in which to remake oneself, and opens up a creative but controversial space of change within popular Filipino Roman Catholicism.
Graduation Semester
2002
Type of Resource
text
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