Masculinity and the ‘Holy Child’ of the Birhen sa Balintawak
The Birhen sa Balintawak is the first indigenous representation of the ‘Virgin-with-child’ in the Philippines. Associated with the revolutionary movement of the Katipunan and promoted by Gregorio Aglipay, a revolutionary priest and a founding figure of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, this repres...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Jesus, Religion, Gender |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Religion & gender
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-96 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aglípay y Labayán, Gregorio 1860-1940, Novenario
/ Maria mit Kind
/ Jesus Christ
/ Masculinity
/ Iglesia Filipina Independiente
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBM Asia NBJ Mariology |
| Further subjects: | B
Masculinity
B Jesus B Philippines B Gregorio Aglipay B Catholicism B Postcolonialism B Iglesia Filipina Independiente B Mary |
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| Summary: | The Birhen sa Balintawak is the first indigenous representation of the ‘Virgin-with-child’ in the Philippines. Associated with the revolutionary movement of the Katipunan and promoted by Gregorio Aglipay, a revolutionary priest and a founding figure of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, this representation of Mary is connected with the political and religious emancipation of the Philippines. This paper explores the construction of the masculinity of the child that accompanies its mother, arguing that its description and depiction both serve to uplift a particular kind of Filipino (revolutionary) masculinity by legitimizing it religiously and to interpret the Christian tradition in an equally indigenous as revolutionary sense. The paper draws on Aglipay’s 1926 Novenario of the Motherland as its central source. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01001010 |