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The Playful Revolution
"The Playful Revolution is an entertaining journal.... exemplary... " -- Illusions "The Playful Revolution breaks new ground by documenting developmental theatre in Asia in its current socio-political and economic ethos... " -- New Theatre Quarterly "[T]his book is the account of a personal journey through Asia, a written documentary of a quest to find political theatre that really works and that possesses a vitality and passion that the contemporary Western theatre seems to have lost." -- from the book In this groundbreaking book, van Erven reports on the liberation theatre movements throughout Asia, which include a diverse collection of creative artists whose politics range from liberal to revolutionary but who all share a common goal of using grass-roots theatre as an agent of liberation.
Manobo Dreams in Arakan
This is Karl Gaspar's latest book, a scholar-cum-activist's account of a familiar and recurring episode in Mindanawon history, the struggle over the Lumad's ancestral lands. When the Manobos in Arakan Valley had to confront the colonization of their lifeworld and the potential loss of their homeland to logging concessionaires, a group of missionaries, community organizers and theater workers joined forces with them to put up a truly collective resistance and in so doing affirmed their own cultural identities
Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding
An investigation of what consolidating religion as a technology of peacebuilding and development does to people's accounts of their religious and cultural traditions and why interreligious peacebuilding entrenches colonial legacies in the present. Throughout the global south, local and international organizations are frequent participants in peacebuilding projects that focus on interreligious dialogue. Yet as Atalia Omer argues in Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding, the effects of their efforts are often perverse, reinforcing neocolonial practices and disempowering local religious actors. Based on empirical research of inter and intra-religious peacebuilding practices in Kenya and the P...
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Handumanan
What Brother Karl Gaspar has written in this book is Philippine Church history critically and beautifully woven into the socio-political past of this country. Though written by someone who serves the Church, this work was never meant to aggrandize the institution. In fact, it is upon the Church's shortcomings and previous faults that Brother Karl anchors his call for the church to reflect on the present issues and concerns confronting the Indigenous Peoples and how such concerns can be integrated into the Church's contemporary mission.- Dr. Juvanni A. Caballero Ph.D Professor of History and Chief of Staff to the Office of the Chancellor Institute Secretary of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City.
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To be Poor and Obscure
As one walks through these confessional essays, one encounters Karl and his world, where the personal, political, and spiritual are interwoven into a Lumad design.
