The ‘War on Drugs’ and the Politics of Morality Religious Leaders in the Time of Duterte

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Cornelio, Jayeel, Medina, Erron
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: Catholic Church; Duterte; moral politics; morality; Philippines; war on drugs; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance; Sociology; Sociology of Religion
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/205; https://doi.org/10.1163/25424246-07020003
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

In the time of Rodrigo Duterte, the leaders of the Philippine Catholic Church were divided on the president’s controversial war on drugs. This article draws on interviews with the religious elite and explores how these divisions took shape. We argue that while they agreed that the killings would not...