"Recasting Ethics of Face and Hiya (Shame) in the light of Cybersexual Violence Against Women"

This paper explores how Philippine/East Asian discourses on ethics of face and shame can be relevant in light of cyber-sexual violence against women. It argues that lowland Philippine concept of hiya (shame) in its moral and internal sense, should be retrieved as virtue in the context of cyber-sexual violence against women. This can however be complemented by Emmanuel Levinas’ concept of the face of the Other and its reception especially in the cyber-context. Hiya (shame) as sensitivity to a loss of face of the excluded kapwa (other), leads to actions that not only helps to “gain face” but also reveal the God who enfaces

Rapprochements Between Theology and the Social Sciences: A Round Table Discussion on Women and the Catholic Church

This event was convened by Budhi in order to pursue more thoroughly and with greater depth some points of discussion that were raised in the Symposium on the Filipino Family: Catholic and Women’s Perspectives, which was organized by the Department of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), and held on September 13, 2014. Prior to the round table discussion (RTD), the panelists were given an outline of questions, which were prepared by Dr. Patricia Lambino, Mr. Michael Liberatore, Ms. Rachel Sanchez, members of the Theology Faculty of the Loyola Schools, AdMU, and Dr. Jean Tan, editor of Budhi. Four of the five panelists, Dr. Agnes Brazal, Ms. Eleanor Dionisio, Dr. Emma Porio, and Dr. Mary Racelis, were the speakers in the September Symposium. Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, who was visiting the Philippines at the time of the RTD, graciously accepted Dr. Porio’s invitation to join the RTD. Ms. Sanchez, who was the key organizer of the Symposium, and Dr. Lambino joined the RTD as discussants and resource persons. Fr. Luis David, S.J., Fr. Jojo Fung, S.J., and Dr. Fernando Zialcita were members of the audience. Dr. Tan served as the moderator of the discussion

Rapprochements Between Theology and the Social Sciences: A Round Table Discussion on Women and the Catholic Church

This event was convened by Budhi in order to pursue more thoroughly and with greater depth some points of discussion that were raised in the Symposium on the Filipino Family: Catholic and Women’s Perspectives, which was organized by the Department of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), and held on September 13, 2014. Prior to the round table discussion (RTD), the panelists were given an outline of questions, which were prepared by Dr. Patricia Lambino, Mr. Michael Liberatore, Ms. Rachel Sanchez, members of the Theology Faculty of the Loyola Schools, AdMU, and Dr. Jean Tan, editor of Budhi.Four of the five panelists, Dr. Agnes Brazal, Ms. Eleanor Dionisio, Dr. Emma Porio, and Dr. Mary Racelis, were the speakers in the September Symposium. Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, who was visiting the Philippines at the time of the RTD, graciously accepted Dr. Porio’s invitation to join the RTD. Ms. Sanchez, who was the key organizer of the Symposium, and Dr. Lambino joined the RTD as discussants and resource persons. Fr. Luis David, S.J., Fr. Jojo Fung, S.J., and Dr. Fernando Zialcita were members of the audience. Dr. Tan served as the moderator of the discussion

Does capitalism kill? Post-Vatican II papal perspectives on development

This essay argues that within the context of increasing global inequality, climate change, and limits to growth, there has been a movement from Paul VI\u27s Populorum progressio and in the succeeding Papal teachings toward a new way of understanding development in an economic model beyond neo-liberal capitalism. For them economic growth and the market economy remain important though the latter must be regulated in order to protect the common good. Pope Francis, however, has gone further than the previous popes in his strong criticism of the capitalist system, his signaling the need to delink development from economic growth, and his appreciation of the role of popular movements in line with Populorum progressio\u27s stress on the importance of people\u27s participation. © 2019 by Louvain Studies, all rights reserved

Resilience: Virtue in the unexpected wilderness

Wilderness is commonly understood as referring to areas significantly untouched by human modifications, even if indigenous peoples may have lived in these areas. In economically developed countries, wilderness also refers to “land where development is prohibited by law,” for a variety of reasons—aesthetic, biological, recreational, cultural, and scientific. The US Wilderness Act of 1964 further qualifies, that humans could have been in these places but only as a transient visitor. In the 21st century, a shift in wilderness theory occurred with the realization that wilderness cannot be defined by physical boundaries, since all landscapes are connected: climate change, for example, affects the national parks and other “protected” wilderness areas. Furthermore, wilderness ecosystems, like all ecosystems, are no longer thought to be static or stable, but instead are dynamic and in constant flu+* thus we need to re-evaluate what wilderness preservation means. The context of this essay, however, is another type of “unexpected wilderness.” From an anthropocentric perspective, it is the wilderness that suddenly encroaches upon our existence; or from an ecocentric standpoint, it could be described as nature taking back its own (e.g., nature taking over coasts that should have been populated with mangroves and not peoples; or flood plains that should not have been made the site of subdivisions). This is the return of wilderness due to nature-related disasters—and these disasters are bound to increase with climate change