DIWANG BALAAN/BANAL: A Decolonial Discourse on Pinoy SpiritualityKarl M. Gaspar, CSsRInstitute of Spirituality in Asia, 2022 MANILA (MindaNews / 08 January) — More than ever, this book …
Karl M. Gaspar, CSsRMANILA — More than ever, this book is relevant to contemporary times, where environmental concerns are faced by both the Global North and South, and indigenous knowledge and spirituality are invaluable to us all if we want to survive and sustain our homes. The book also highlights the importance of indigenous peoples in protecting the environment, but they’re the ones who face violence. Bro.
Readers can sense Bro. Karl is deeply invested in bringing the voice of Indigenous Peoples and their spirituality to the Christian faith. This book underscores relationality , which was suppressed and silenced by colonialism. Likewise, in this book, Bro. Karl rightly emphasized that we all come from the same roots and carry the blood of Indigenous Peoples, a truth many forget. Hence, it was apt that the Bro. Karl wrote a section about “memory” in this book.
Furthermore, it invites institutions to re-evaluate and revisit and re-frame their pastoral-missiological approaches and responses, that might be cloaked with coloniality and Eurocentric orientation.