dc.contributor.author |
Mendoza, S.L. (Lily)
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dc.date.accessioned |
2018-07-04T09:14:10Z |
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dc.date.available |
2018-07-04T09:14:10Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017-11-17 |
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dc.description |
The collection entitled ‘Spirit rising: tracing movements of justice’, forms part of the ‘Faith in the City’ research project, hosted by
the Centre for Contextual Ministry in the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. Some of the articles were papers presented at the
Biennial Consultation on Urban Ministry, hosted by the Institute for Urban Ministry, in collaboration with other organizations, from 17–20
August 2016. The theme of this Consultation was ‘#We must rise: healers - dreamers – jesters’. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Undoing all forms of domination – including, in particular, religious domination – remains a
crucial imperative of our time, given that domination constitutes a spirit-killing dynamic that
distorts, oppresses and throws living beings (both human and non-human alike) out of synch
with themselves. One form of domination in colonial contexts is the totalising claim to a
monopoly of ‘the’ truth that effectively delegitimises and demonises all other ways of seeing the
world. This essay grapples with the question: What happens when the ‘One True Story’
encounters other faith stories? Riffing off my (coedited) anthology, Back from the Crocodile’s Belly:
Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory (dedicated to the memory of the
Filipino indigenous women and men healers impaled on stakes by early Spanish missionaries
and left on river banks for crocodiles to feast on), I narrate my personal journey growing up as a
Filipina Methodist pastor’s kid, becoming a born-again believer and an aspiring Christian
missionary trained by Philippine Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and the Navigators, and
belatedly coming to grips with my relationship to my country’s colonial history and its
consequences for me and my people’s struggle for wholeness and authenticity. What happens
when my wholly formed Christian subjectivity becomes challenged by the resurrecting call of
spirit to indigenous and earth well-being? Informed by a multilayered cultural memory, I trace
my faith learnings from an encounter with deep ancestry in the ‘belly of the beast’ and its larger
significance for today’s social movement struggles for sustainability and global coexistence. |
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dc.description.department |
Practical Theology |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2018 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Lily Mendoza, S., 2017, ‘Back
from the Crocodile’s Belly:
Christian formation meets
indigenous resurrection’, HTS
Teologiese Studies/
Theological Studies 73(3),
a4660. https://DOI.org/
10.4102/hts.v73i3.4660. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0259-9422 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2072-8050 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4102/hts.v73i3.4660 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65295 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
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dc.rights |
© 2017. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS. This work
is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Religious domination |
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dc.subject |
Christian missionary |
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dc.subject |
Christian formation |
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dc.subject |
Indigenous resurrection |
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dc.subject |
Crocodile’s Belly |
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dc.subject |
Indigenous Memory |
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dc.subject |
Filipina Methodist |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-03 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-03: Good health and well-being |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-04 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-04: Quality education |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-05 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-05: Gender equality |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-10 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-10: Reduced inequalities |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-13 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-13: Climate action |
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dc.subject.other |
Theology articles SDG-16 |
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dc.subject.other |
SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
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dc.title |
Back from the Crocodile’s Belly : Christian formation meets indigenous resurrection |
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dc.type |
Article |
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