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| Item Call Number |
BL 2130 B45 2006 |
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Item withdrawn |
| Barcode |
13046 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789719356004
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - BL 2130
- Item number - B45 2006
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Belita, Jimmy A.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - God was not in the wind :
- Remainder of title - an evolutionary understanding of popular religion in the Philippines /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Fr. Jimmy A. Belita
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Adamson University Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2006.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xii, 230 pages :
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| General Note |
- General note - Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Introduction -- The notion and practice of popular religion -- New hermeneutics for a re-emergence of popular religion in a secular age -- Popular religion and postmodernity -- Shift from folk to popular religion: outcome of media/commercial generation -- Science and religion -- Modern attempts at interfacing science and religion -- Confirmation model -- Analogy, models, metaphors, paradigms -- Chapter 1: The evolutionary process -- Cosmic evolution -- Biological evolution -- Evolution of the mind -- Cultural evolution -- The phenomenon of coevolution -- Conscious evolution -- Conclusion -- Chapter II: Morality in cultural evolution -- Evolution and morals: a paradoxical relationship -- Fears of evolutionary theory in morality -- The genesis of values -- Perceived values -- Emotions: Physiological markers of values -- Moral system in cultural evolution -- Conceived values in cultural evolution -- Chapter III: Religion in cultural evolution -- survey of theories on origin and evolution of religion -- Coevolution of religion and culture -- The roles of religion -- Influence of religion -- Myths and rituals: tools of religion -- Religion as by-product of adaptation -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter IV: Normative syntheses of the evolutionary process -- Significant trajectories in evolution -- From generic to cultural evolution -- From biological to cultural adaptation -- From natural selection to intelligent selection -- Polarities in religion and morality -- Investment and commitment -- Cosmicity and historicality -- Instrumentality and aestheticity -- Axiomatic principle of evolution -- Principle of aesthetic cosmology -- Principle of maximum diversity -- principle of wholeness and harmony -- Principle of participatory evolution -- Re-reading popular religion from the evolutionary perspective -- Popular religion from within -- Popular religion from the outside -- Chapter V: Popular catholicism among the Filipinos -- Animistic beliefs and practices -- Pact of harmony with nature (Tabitabi lang) -- Harmonization with one's own spirit (Dungan) -- Ginger mediumship (Paluy-a) -- Animistic and catholic syncretism -- Animism christianized or catholicism inculturated? -- Sacraments in popular catholicism -- Re-imaging in popular religion -- Mirroring and idealization -- The prayer world -- Popular religion and institutional religion a dialogue -- Popular catholicism in coevolution with culture and theology -- Church's stance on folk/popular religiosity -- Chapter VI: The moral world of popular religion -- Ethos of survival in a systemic world -- The moral world of the preliterates -- The catholic moral system -- Shamanic imagination, christian images -- Resisting the code, a game of survival -- Effects of mythic religion on the ethical life -- The filipino moral world of equality -- Conclusion -- Chapter VII: The church in cultural evolution -- The way of the social animals -- The adaptive structure we call the church -- Coadaptation and symbiosis of cultures -- Structured harmony in time-space milieu -- Cooptation of religion for survival -- Conversion or veneer of harmony? Participatory evolution in a rational organization -- Building community or coalition? -- Chapter VIII: Popular religion doing practical theology -- God, patient and kenotic: inference by a believing evolutionist -- God's creativity, creatures' contingency -- Grace: God's nearness to humans -- Original sin: an evolutionary view -- Atonement: meaning and purpose of God's kingdom -- Moral life in a globalized age: beyond evolution -- Liturgy and moral life: Aesthetic integration in popular religion -- New religious movements: popular religion evolving -- Conclusion -- Evolutionary trade-offs -- The future of popular religion: The blurring of boundaries -- Popular religion at a crossway.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Christianity and culture
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Christianity
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - Religion.
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - Religious life and customs.
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