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Author Centeno, Kenneth

Title Renegotiating the Sacred A Search Towards a New Way of Understanding the Filipino Consciousness of God
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (516 p.)
Series Global Religion -- Religion Global Ser
Global Religion -- Religion Global Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Giving the Sacred the Word: An Introduction -- The Sacred in Question -- Attempting Another Terrain -- The Reasons Behind and Limitations of the Study -- Local Epistemics and Standpoint Theory -- An Overview of the Structure -- Chapter 2: Mapping the Boundaries of the Sacred -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Hunters of the Sacred: The Search for the Ultimate and its Determinate Expressions -- 2.2.1 Emile Durkheim: The Sacred as Manifestation of the Societal Spirit
2.2.2 Rudolf Otto: The Sacred as an Encounter with the Wholly Other -- 2.2.3 Mircea Eliade: Sacred Reality or Sacred in Reality? -- 2.3 Minding the Gap: The Sacred, the Parallax View, and the Call for Negotiation -- 2.3.1 Levinas and the In-finite Gap -- 2.3.1.1 The Sacrality of Other's Otherness -- 2.3.1.2 The Face as Manifestation of the Sacred Chasm -- 2.3.1.3 God as In-finity and the Other's Alterity -- 2.3.1.4 Minding the Gap that Bites -- 2.3.2 Slavoj Žižek and the Parallax View -- 2.3.2.1 The Insuperable Gap -- 2.3.2.2 The Self's Inner Gap
2.3.2.3 Divine Ontology and Violence of the Sacred -- 2.3.2.4 The Gaps of Žižek -- 2.3.2.5 Back to Basics: Beyond the Levinasian and Žižekian Gap -- 2.4 The Insistence of the Sacred: The Constant Quest for Meaning -- 2.4.1 The Porousness of Human Existence -- 2.4.2 Black Hole of Nihilism or Jumping Board into the Depths of Meaning? -- 2.4.3 The Persistence of the Sacred -- 2.4.4 Contestation of the Sacred -- 2.4.5 Violence of the Sacred or Violating the Sacred? -- 2.5 Chapter Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Sacred Canopies vis-à-vis the Filipino Weltanschauung -- 3.1 Introduction
3.2 What Asia? Which Filipino? -- 3.2.1 Asianism Even Among Asians -- 3.2.2 Filipino-ness: Conflictedness Equals Ruined Identity? -- 3.2.3 Search for the 'Filipino' Self as Essentialist and Nativist? -- 3.2.4 Neither Orientalism/Asianism nor Nativism/Essentialism -- 3.3 The Ilustrado Retrieval of the Sacred: Religiosity in Search of Identity -- 3.3.1 Pedro Paterno: The Much-Hated Turncoat -- 3.3.1.1 Bathalismo: Paterno's Invention in La Antigua Civilización Tagalog? -- 3.3.2 Jose Rizal: The Hero in European Coat -- 3.3.2.1 Krausismo and the Pursuit of the Spanish Armonia Perfecta
3.3.2.2 Rizal's Estado de Religiosidad de los Pueblos en Filipinas -- 3.3.3 Emilio Jacinto: Coating Darkness with the Light of Loob -- 3.3.3.1 Liwanag at Dilim: The Logic of Loving the True Light -- 3.3.3.2 Loob: The Sacred Internal as the Ethical External -- 3.3.3.2.1 Loob as Interiority Without Margins -- 3.3.3.2.2 Loob and Pag-abot -- 3.3.3.2.3 Loob as Abot-Dama -- 3.3.4 Jacinto's Retrieval of the Divine Moral Order -- 3.3.5 Beyond Sacralization of the Revolution -- 3.4 Pakikipagkapwa-loob: Axis of Relations as a Tool in Understanding the Sacred as Negotiation
Notes Description based upon print version of record
3.4.1 Revisiting the 'Kapwa' Discourse
Subject God -- Knowableness.
Bible -- Job
God -- Knowableness
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783657793495
3657793496