Abstract
This paper looks into the continuing interface between the Vanaw, a northern Philippine Indigenous culture, and foreign Christian (Liturgical, Evangelical and Pentecostal-Charismatic) traditions. It provides a historical backdrop of this interface, examines the resilience and vulnerabilities of local traditional culture, explores the beneficial and detrimental impact of ecumenical and sectarian missiologies on a particular set of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP), and examines the local concept of panankikinnámit ‘intertwining’ to articulate an Indigenous Relational Worldview that can offer a way to develop an irenic spirit among community members adhering to various – even diametrically opposed – expressions of faith. With the spectre of language and culture loss looming over the archipelago’s 110 Indigenous Peoples groups, this study aims to contribute to an emic but areligious perspective on how external and internal forces shape a traditional culture’s sense of identity, and its apprehension of the religious and/or the spiritual.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Religious Commonalities and Differences
KEYWORDS
INDIGENEITY, ECUMENISM, SECTARIANISM, LITURGICAL TRADITION, EVANGELICALISM, PENTECOSTALISM
