عنوان

us Colonial Governance of Superstition and Fanaticism in the Philippines

شماره

LA121555

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

us Colonial Governance of Superstition and Fanaticism in the Philippines

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jeffrey Wheatley

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

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 categories. I focus on ideas about Filipino supernatural charms, typically referred to as anting anting. Civil administrators like ethnologist Dean Worcester and officers of the Philippine Constabulary blamed these charms for superstitious credulity and fanatical resistance against us rule. As such, beliefs, practices, and communities categorized as superstitious or fanatical were targeted strategically for reformation or elimination. I argue that ideas about superstition, religion, and fanaticism were key parts of us war and policy, often serving racial projects of governance. Pursuing this line of inquiry allows scholars to see the material stakes of the category of religion and its proximate others. 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 categories. I focus on ideas about Filipino supernatural charms, typically referred to as anting anting. Civil administrators like ethnologist Dean Worcester and officers of the Philippine Constabulary blamed these charms for superstitious credulity and fanatical resistance against us rule. As such, beliefs, practices, and communities categorized as superstitious or fanatical were targeted strategically for reformation or elimination. I argue that ideas about superstition, religion, and fanaticism were key parts of us war and policy, often serving racial projects of governance. Pursuing this line of inquiry allows scholars to see the material stakes of the category of religion and its proximate others.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

21-36

عنوان

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

شماره جلد

30/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0682

اصطلاح موضوعی

American religious history

اصطلاح موضوعی

colonialism

اصطلاح موضوعی

fanaticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philippines

اصطلاح موضوعی

secularism

اصطلاح موضوعی

superstition

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jeffrey Wheatley

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700682-12341410

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y