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The first describes a peculiar interpretation of religious experience indicating an epistemological shift from an exclusive definition to a diffused interpretation of religious–spiritual categories: as “personal religiosity” and “institutional spirituality”.
Filipino adults from 66% in 1991 to 43% in 2013 (Mangahas 2011). Among Catholics, the decline is arguably more drastic from 64% in 1991. to 37% in 2013. The discursive recurrence of religious decline is also manifest among commentators and religious individuals.
standards of Catholic faith such as beliefs, rituals, and religious doctrines, the Filipino youth may fare poorly. But a closer examination of their religious subjectivities reveals their affirmation of Catholic faith as expressed in terms of their relationship with God, relational lifestyle, and critique of religious plasticity or superficiality.
20 lis 2014 · On various indicators of private belief in God, the Philippines trumps many other countries: 91.9% of Filipinos believe in a personal God, 93.5% profess always having believed in God, and 83.6% say that “I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it” (Smith, 2012, p. 7).
The way the Philippines is (wrongly) described as the “only Christian nation in Asia” is a case in point. This discourse, deployed by the religious sector, marginalizes not only non-Christians (e.g. Muslims, indigenous peoples, and the religiously unaffiliated).
26 lis 2018 · Recent data from two local empirical studies on religion (Baring et al. 2018) and the sacred (Baring et al. 2017) show how an imminent shift in Filipino youth attitudes articulates new perspectives on religion, religiosity, and spirituality.
8 sty 2021 · Editorial Introduction: A Religious Society? Advancing the Sociology of Religion in the Philippines. Articles. Catholic Partisanship in the 2013 Elections: ‘Churchifying’ Democracy or Democratizing the Church?, Eleanor R. Dionisio.
