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On the Multispecies Spectrum of Spiritual Ethos in Pre-colonial and Colonial Philippines

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This paper provides a multispecies narrative of the Philippine experience as a Christianized archipelago. Multispecies studies are still absent in local scholarship regarding the textual, ethnological, and even anthropological understanding of our pre-colonial and colonial experience. I conclude that the multispecies spectrum (partly drawing from feminist studies) of understanding the historical and geographical transformations of the archipelago as a post-colonized nation offers a path of decolonizing the distributive logic of the globalization of the guilt of the West. All this amid the new planetary predicament ushered in by the Anthropocene.

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    Virgilio A. Rivas

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  2. Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

    Jeremiah Joven Joaquin

  3. International Buddhist Studies College, Mahaculalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Ayutthaya, Thailand

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Rivas, V.A. (2023). On the Multispecies Spectrum of Spiritual Ethos in Pre-colonial and Colonial Philippines. In: Hongladarom, S., Joaquin, J.J., Hoffman, F.J. (eds) Philosophies of Appropriated Religions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5191-8_14

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