Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Wiegele, Katharine Leone

Contributors dc:contributor

• Saul, Mahir

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3044260

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85246