Manobo Dreams in Arakan

Manobo Dreams in Arakan
Author: Karl Gaspar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Manobos (Philippine people)
ISBN: 9789715506298

This is Karl Gaspar's latest book, a scholar-cum-activist's account of a familiar and recurring episode in Mindanawon history, the struggle over the Lumad's ancestral lands. When the Manobos in Arakan Valley had to confront the colonization of their lifeworld and the potential loss of their homeland to logging concessionaires, a group of missionaries, community organizers and theater workers joined forces with them to put up a truly collective resistance and in so doing affirmed their own cultural identities

Arakan

Arakan
Author: Nestor Horfilla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN:

Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding
Author: Omer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0197683010

An investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and cultural traditions and why interreligious peacebuilding entrenches colonial legacies in the present. Throughout the global south, local and international organizations are frequent participants in peacebuilding projects that focus on interreligious dialogue. Yet as Atalia Omer argues in Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding, the effects of their efforts are often perverse, reinforcing neocolonial practices and disempowering local religious actors. Based on empirical research of inter and intra-religious peacebuilding practices in Kenya and the Philippines, Omer identifies two paradoxical findings: first, religious peacebuilding practices are both empowering and depoliticizing and, second, more doing of religion does not necessarily denote deeper or more critical religious literacy. Further, she shows that these religious actors generate decolonial openings regardless of how closed or open their religious communities are. Hence, religion's occasional usefulness in peacebuilding does not necessarily mean justice-oriented outcomes. The book not only uses decolonial and intersectional prisms to expose the entrenched and ongoing colonial dynamics operative in religion and the practices of peacebuilding and development in the global South, but it also speaks to decolonial theory through stories of transformation and survival.

A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability

A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability
Author: Jojo M. Fung
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319510223

This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as spirited and sacred serves to re-enchant a world disillusioned by the unsustainability of destructive economic systems that have spawned the current ecological crises. Author Jojo Fung offers insight from his lived-experience and this book represents his effort to correlate the indigenous spirit world with Catholic Pneumatology and articulate the activity of God’s Spirit as the Spirit of Sacred Sustainability.

The Philippine Archipelago

The Philippine Archipelago
Author: Yves Boquet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319519263

This book presents an updated view of the Philippines, focusing on thematic issues rather than a description region by region. Topics include typhoons, population growth, economic difficulties, agrarian reform, migration as an economic strategy, the growth of Manila, the Muslim question in Mindanao, the South China Sea tensions with China and the challenges of risk, vulnerability and sustainable development.

Southeast Asian Anthropologies

Southeast Asian Anthropologies
Author: Eric C. Thompson
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. This book makes visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists with decades of experience in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in the region. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages. First, the historical development of traditions of research, scholarship, and social engagement across diverse anthropological communities of the region, which have adopted and adapted global anthropological trends to their local circumstances. Second, the opportunities and challenges faced by Southeast Asian anthropologists as they practise their craft in different political contexts. Third, the emergence of locally-grounded, intra-regional, transnational linkages and practices. The book contributes to a 21st-century, world anthropologies paradigm from a Southeast Asian perspective.

Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future

Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future
Author: Wahab, Haris Abd
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799874826

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant risks to particular communities and individuals, including indigenous communities, migrant workers, refugees, transgender individuals, and the homeless population. The disadvantaged population is overwhelmed by deprivation, inequality, unemployment, and infections, both communicable and non-communicable, which make them more vulnerable to COVID-19 and its negative consequences. These marginalized groups struggle to obtain an admirable political representation and face marginalization and lack of access to health, education, and social services. It is imperative that these marginalized groups and their right to life and their livelihoods are supported, especially when they are put at risk during global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future represents a way of acknowledging an improved, pandemic-free, and prosperous environment for everyone in the future where society does not leave behind any poor or marginalized individuals. The book is a representation of the voice of the marginalized people in the new normal attempting to draw on a comprehensive knowledge bank, which includes anthropology, sociology, gender studies, media, education, indigenous dimension, philosophy, bioethics, care ethics, and more. This book focuses solely on the marginalized people, examines the oppressed communities in depth, and provides insights on how we should stand by these vulnerable people. This book is a valuable tool for social workers, government bodies, policymakers, social justice advocates, human rights activists, researchers in gender and race studies, practitioners, academicians, and students interested in how COVID-19 has impacted marginalized populations and how social justice can be advocated for in the future.

Habagatanon

Habagatanon
Author: Ricardo M. De Ungria
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: