500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a

Cristina Lledo Gomez is the Presentation Sisters Lecturer at BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education (BBI-TAITE) and a Research Fellow for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her role at BBI-TAITE is directed toward promoting women’s spiritualities, feminist theologies, and ecotheologies.  Agnes M. Brazal is a Full Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Education at De La Salle University Manila, The Philippines, former President of DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines), and author/editor of eleven books that include A Theology of Southeast Asia: Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Philippines (2019). Ma. Marilou S. Ibita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Education at De La Salle University, The Philippines, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her research centers around biblical literature and Jewish-Christian dialogue.

• 1 Philippine Christianity: 500 Years of Resistance and Accommodation.- 2 Indigenization as Appropriation (What Being Baptized Could Have Meant for the Natives of Cebu in 1521).- 3 The Double Truth of (Colonial) Mission.- 4 Rethinking Encounters and Re-imagining Muslim-Christian Relations in Post-colonial Philippines.- 5 The Glocal Filipin@s and the Pasyon Through the Lens of Ethnicity.- 6 An Independent Catholic, Nationalist People’s Movement: The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church).- 7 Philippine, Independent and International: The Relationship Between—the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and the Old Catholic Churches.- 8 Indigenous Inculturation: A Hermeneutics of Serendipity.- 9 Decolonizing the Diaspora through the Center for Babaylan Studies.- 10 Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux.- 11 The Ygollotes’ Pudong and the Insurrection of the Reeds In the Post-Human Commune.- 12 Introducing Jeepney Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible as Canaanites.- 13 Inang Diyos, Inang Bayan: The Virgin Mary and Filipino Identity.- 14 Bangon Na, Pinays Rise Up: Reclaiming Pinay Power Dismantled by a Christian Colonial Past and Present.- 15 Re-Baptizing Spirit in Land and Ancestry: An Approach for Un-Doing Christian Colonialism.- 16 Toward Reclaiming the Wisdom of our Forebears: Nature and Environment from a Filipino Perspective.