J Bautista
Biographic Data
| ID | 68283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Bautista |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bautista |
| SIGNATURE | BAUTISTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9216-1722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics in Pampanga, the Philippines. I emphasize the intersubjective and pedagogical components of this process by discussing the implementation of tantsa (literally, “to estimate”) as the intuitive capacity that facilitates ritual outcomes through the collaborative establishment of authoritative know-how. Aligning insight from femin…
Resil B. Mojares. The Feast of the Santo Niño: An Introduction to the History of a Cebuano Devotion
Sa Awa ng Diyos: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Panata Among Filipina Black Nazarene Devotees in Low-Income Communities
Panata, a prominent part of the Filipino culture, is a religious vow whereby devotees offer a sacrifice for thanksgiving, petition, or repentance in hopes of being rewarded by divine promise. This study focused on the experience of panata among female Black Nazarene devotees from low-income communities and sought to understand how they make sense of these experiences. Eleven participants from the Ladies of the Black Nazarene and Kababaihan ng Buk…
On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, at least from the perspective of the institutional Church, lies not in the extra liturgical performance of its rituals, but rather in the popular belief that sacred objects possess a…
Catholic Democratization: Religious Networks and Political Agency in the Philippines and Timor-Leste
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
On the Anthropology and Theology of Roman Catholic Rituals in the Philippines
The topic of this paper is the dynamics of clerical and public attitudes pertaining to the continued performance of Passion rituals of self-mortification among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. I examine discourses of official clerical disavowal of Passion rituals as well as the seemingly contrasting attitudes of accommodation and tacit encouragement from clerics ‘on the ground’. I argue that the diversity of perspectives on Passion rituals are…
Hesukristo superstar: Entrusted agency and passion rituals in the Roman Catholic Philippines
In this article I draw from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2013 in San Pedro Cutud, a village located in the Philippine province of Pampanga. The focus is on the performance of the Via Crucis y Passion y Muerte , a passion play held there every year on Good Friday. Central to the play is the individual pursuit of panata , or divine pledge, by the cast of around forty actors, and particularly by the play's main protagonist: the …
Albertus Bagus Laksana. Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java
Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java Albertus Bagus Laksana Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, xiii+252p.Albertus Bagus Laksana's Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java is rich, intricately textured comparative ethnography of Muslim and Catholic pilgrimage traditions in south central Java. The empirical data-derived from participant observation, direct-interview, discourse analysis, and archival re…
Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines
In this essay I examine how a Catholicized economic ethos in the Philippines is promulgated by rhetorical pronouncements about the positive value of sacrifice that rationalizes the cultivation of so-called export-quality martyrs. In the state's discursive linkage of transnational capital to heroism, Filipino Catholicized neoliberalism is operationalized as an affective space in which the generation of remittance capital is branded as a legitimate…
Ethnography as an Act of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork on Passion Rituals in the Philippines
This article juxtaposes two narrative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork on the Passion rituals of Central Luzon in the Philippines. Framed from two distinct cultural and temporal contexts, these narratives highlight the limits and the possibilities of reflexive participant observation in understanding and depicting Filipino religious culture. The authors problematize the assumption that the researcher is the sovereign determinant of fieldwork pa…
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The Anthropology of Christianity Editor: Fennella Cannell
Linda A. Newson, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines
The Bearable Lightness of Pain: Crucifying Oneself in Pampanga
This chapter describes ethnographic research conducted in Pampanga, the Philippines where, during Holy Week, hundreds of Catholic penitents self-mortify on Good Friday. These rituals, which include flagellation and nailing to a cross, are construed as the ‘extremist’, ‘literalist’ fringe of Filipino Catholicism, where Lenten penitents engage in enacting the Passion of Christ. I will give an ethnographic portrait of how penitents themselves think …
Church and State in the Philippines: Tackling Life Issues in a Culture of Death
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Living Piously in a Culture of Death: The Catholic Church and the State in the Philippines
The meta-theory of piety: Reflections on the work of Saba Mahmood
The Rebellion and the Icon: Holy Revolutions in the Philippines
An archipelago twice “discovered”: The Santo Niño in the discourse of discovery
Any visitor who inquires about Cebu City's most important historic site will most likely be led to Fort San Pedro (Figure 1). Initially constructed in the sixteenth century, the first Spanish fort
Church and State in the Philippines: Tackling Life Issues in a Culture of Death
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines
In this essay I examine how a Catholicized economic ethos in the Philippines is promulgated by rhetorical pronouncements about the positive value of sacrifice that rationalizes the cultivation of so-called export-quality martyrs. In the state's discursive linkage of transnational capital to heroism, Filipino Catholicized neoliberalism is operationalized as an affective space in which the generation of remittance capital is branded as a legitimate…
The meta-theory of piety: Reflections on the work of Saba Mahmood
Ethnography as an Act of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork on Passion Rituals in the Philippines
This article juxtaposes two narrative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork on the Passion rituals of Central Luzon in the Philippines. Framed from two distinct cultural and temporal contexts, these narratives highlight the limits and the possibilities of reflexive participant observation in understanding and depicting Filipino religious culture. The authors problematize the assumption that the researcher is the sovereign determinant of fieldwork pa…
The Rebellion and the Icon: Holy Revolutions in the Philippines
An archipelago twice “discovered”: The Santo Niño in the discourse of discovery
Any visitor who inquires about Cebu City's most important historic site will most likely be led to Fort San Pedro (Figure 1). Initially constructed in the sixteenth century, the first Spanish fort
On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, at least from the perspective of the institutional Church, lies not in the extra liturgical performance of its rituals, but rather in the popular belief that sacred objects possess a…
An archipelago twice “discovered”: The Santo Niño in the discourse of discovery
Any visitor who inquires about Cebu City's most important historic site will most likely be led to Fort San Pedro (Figure 1). Initially constructed in the sixteenth century, the first Spanish fort
The Rebellion and the Icon: Holy Revolutions in the Philippines
The meta-theory of piety: Reflections on the work of Saba Mahmood
Living Piously in a Culture of Death: The Catholic Church and the State in the Philippines
Church and State in the Philippines: Tackling Life Issues in a Culture of Death
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Linda A. Newson, Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines
The Bearable Lightness of Pain: Crucifying Oneself in Pampanga
This chapter describes ethnographic research conducted in Pampanga, the Philippines where, during Holy Week, hundreds of Catholic penitents self-mortify on Good Friday. These rituals, which include flagellation and nailing to a cross, are construed as the ‘extremist’, ‘literalist’ fringe of Filipino Catholicism, where Lenten penitents engage in enacting the Passion of Christ. I will give an ethnographic portrait of how penitents themselves think …
Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The Anthropology of Christianity Editor: Fennella Cannell
Ethnography as an Act of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork on Passion Rituals in the Philippines
This article juxtaposes two narrative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork on the Passion rituals of Central Luzon in the Philippines. Framed from two distinct cultural and temporal contexts, these narratives highlight the limits and the possibilities of reflexive participant observation in understanding and depicting Filipino religious culture. The authors problematize the assumption that the researcher is the sovereign determinant of fieldwork pa…
Export-Quality Martyrs: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines
In this essay I examine how a Catholicized economic ethos in the Philippines is promulgated by rhetorical pronouncements about the positive value of sacrifice that rationalizes the cultivation of so-called export-quality martyrs. In the state's discursive linkage of transnational capital to heroism, Filipino Catholicized neoliberalism is operationalized as an affective space in which the generation of remittance capital is branded as a legitimate…
Albertus Bagus Laksana. Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java
Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java Albertus Bagus Laksana Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, xiii+252p.Albertus Bagus Laksana's Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java is rich, intricately textured comparative ethnography of Muslim and Catholic pilgrimage traditions in south central Java. The empirical data-derived from participant observation, direct-interview, discourse analysis, and archival re…
Hesukristo superstar: Entrusted agency and passion rituals in the Roman Catholic Philippines
In this article I draw from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2013 in San Pedro Cutud, a village located in the Philippine province of Pampanga. The focus is on the performance of the Via Crucis y Passion y Muerte , a passion play held there every year on Good Friday. Central to the play is the individual pursuit of panata , or divine pledge, by the cast of around forty actors, and particularly by the play's main protagonist: the …
On the Anthropology and Theology of Roman Catholic Rituals in the Philippines
The topic of this paper is the dynamics of clerical and public attitudes pertaining to the continued performance of Passion rituals of self-mortification among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. I examine discourses of official clerical disavowal of Passion rituals as well as the seemingly contrasting attitudes of accommodation and tacit encouragement from clerics ‘on the ground’. I argue that the diversity of perspectives on Passion rituals are…
Catholic Democratization: Religious Networks and Political Agency in the Philippines and Timor-Leste
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Sa Awa ng Diyos: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Panata Among Filipina Black Nazarene Devotees in Low-Income Communities
Panata, a prominent part of the Filipino culture, is a religious vow whereby devotees offer a sacrifice for thanksgiving, petition, or repentance in hopes of being rewarded by divine promise. This study focused on the experience of panata among female Black Nazarene devotees from low-income communities and sought to understand how they make sense of these experiences. Eleven participants from the Ladies of the Black Nazarene and Kababaihan ng Buk…
On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, at least from the perspective of the institutional Church, lies not in the extra liturgical performance of its rituals, but rather in the popular belief that sacred objects possess a…
Resil B. Mojares. The Feast of the Santo Niño: An Introduction to the History of a Cebuano Devotion
Tantsa: Intuition as authoritative know-how in the Roman Catholic Philippines
This article examines ritual nailing on the cross as a conduit for a process of ethical self-making among Roman Catholics in Pampanga, the Philippines. I emphasize the intersubjective and pedagogical components of this process by discussing the implementation of tantsa (literally, “to estimate”) as the intuitive capacity that facilitates ritual outcomes through the collaborative establishment of authoritative know-how. Aligning insight from femin…
Sociology (13 works) · Philippine History and Culture (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)