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"Every year during Holy Week in the Philippine province of Pampanga, hundreds of men and women undergo acts of excruciating, self-inflicted pain in ways that evoke the Way of the Cross: the torment and crucifixion that Christ endured in the last days of his earthly existence. Because these Passion rituals are officially disavowed by the Filipino Roman Catholic Church, most observers view them as irrational and extremist mimicry of Christ's painful ordeal. Even scholars conventionally depict them as theatrical "spectacle" or macabre examples of Filipino "folk religion." But what conditions enable ritual actors to submit to such extreme pain? What justifications do they give for going against official prohibitions? What outcomes do they seek in channeling Christian piety in this way? This book addresses these questions through its in-depth analyses of three interconnected ritual acts: the pabasa, a days-long communal chanting of Christ's Passion story; the pagdarame, the public self-flagellation of hundreds of devotees, and the pamamaku king krus, in which steel nails are driven through the palms and feet of ritual practitioners as part of a street play performed in front of tens of thousands of spectators. Bautista suggests that such ritual acts manifest the embodied physicality of a suffering selfhood that facilitates the expression of heartfelt sentiments of pity, empathy, trust, and bereavement. The author draws on a decade of in-depth and often exclusive interviews with a host of local stakeholders and his own participation in a Passion play. Ethnographic insight is considered alongside primary and secondary archival sources, including unpublished, locally produced oral historical accounts and a survey of relevant media coverage"--

The ideology of suffering in Medieval and colonial domains -- The ensounded body: the aural environment of passion chanting -- Pagdarame: self-flagellation as triangulated empathy -- The way of the cross: nailing and the ritualization of trust -- Clerical perspectives on passion rituals -- Suffering selfhood in transnational domains.

AbstractThe subject of this paper is the politics of 'use' and 'misuse' of religious iconography during popular uprisings in the Philippines. It will discuss the ways in which religious icons, specifically the Santo Niño and Our Lady of EDSA, are co-opted for specific political and social agendas. "Rebellion" is broadly defined here as the combined action of a large group of people against what they see as the oppressive and hegemonic force that prevents the full enactment of their common interest. The concern here is to describe how mass action incorporates the imagery of divine personages so that revolutions are, simultaneously, acts of worship and rebellion. This paper asks the following question: What are the processes by which religious iconographies contextualise rebellion in the Philippines? What are the circumstances that led to a repetition of such events throughout the history of the country? And finally, under whose authority are rebellions and protests in the Philippines labelled and packaged as 'holy' and 'divine'? This paper will argue that the 'holiness' of religiously inspired mass uprisings is contingent upon specific acts of legitimisation, 'packaging' and semantic contestation.

The ideology of suffering in Medieval and colonial domains -- The ensounded body: the aural environment of passion chanting -- Pagdarame: self-flagellation as triangulated empathy -- The way of the cross: nailing and the ritualization of trust -- Clerical perspectives on passion rituals -- Suffering selfhood in transnational domains.

The ideology of suffering in Medieval and colonial domains -- The ensounded body: the aural environment of passion chanting -- Pagdarame: self-flagellation as triangulated empathy -- The way of the cross: nailing and the ritualization of trust -- Clerical perspectives on passion rituals -- Suffering selfhood in transnational domains.

This book examines how Christians in Asia express their religion under the spectre of the nation state and processes of globalization. Considering Christianity's growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book brings into sharper analytical focus the ways in which the faith is articulated at the local, regional, and global level

This book examines how Christians in Asia express their religion under the spectre of the nation state and processes of globalization. Considering Christianity's growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book brings into sharper analytical focus the ways in which the faith is articulated at the local, regional, and global level.

The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the 'body in Asia' a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures