US Colonial Governance of Superstition and Fanaticism in the Philippines

This article examines how us colonial officials understood and utilized the categories of superstition, fanaticism, and religion during the occupation of the Philippines in the early twentieth century. I adapt Jason Josephson-Storm’s model of the trinary to explore the colonial politics of these cat...

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Main Author: Wheatley, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-36
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Colonial administration / Philippines / Religious policy / Superstition / Fanaticism / Triad
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBM Asia
KBQ North America
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Superstition fanaticism secularism colonialism Philippines American religious history
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)