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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Observing the Transcendent Other: Early Modern C
 hristian Interpretations of a Philippine Religion
DTSTART:20180605T101500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture in englischer Sprache präsentiert von KHK Vi
 siting Research Fellow Imke Rath\n\nThe presentation will relate the prese
 nter's research on an ancient Philippine religion to the KHK concept of th
 e transcendence/immanence-distinction (TID). It is led by the question on 
 how to deal with descriptions of transcendent phenomena of this Philippine
  religion produced by observers who had a clearly different (Early Modern 
 Catholic) idea of the TID. Based on three examples\, it will be shown how 
 this distinct TID influenced not only the descriptions in the sources\, bu
 t in some cases even the current understanding of certain phenomena of thi
 s Philippine religion. In the first example\, it will be discussed how the
  classification of various religious figures and beings as witches equaliz
 ed Philippine priests with transcendent mythological beings and anthropomo
 rphized Philippine ghosts. The second example focuses on the liminal momen
 t of transition from immanence to transcendence by analyzing descriptions 
 of rituals. This leads to the third example on the understanding of death 
 and the concept of soul. In this regard\, it will be demonstrated how a co
 mparative study of Oceanic ideas of the essence of mankind and life after 
 death inspires to a new interpretation of sources\, providing an alternati
 ve view to the Christian understanding of the soul presented by the Early 
 Modern observers.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/lunchbox-lecture-von-imke-rath/
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