Interiority, Traslación, and the Devotion to the Black Nazarene

• Main Author: Calano, Mark Joesph T
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Panatà; Devotion; debt-of-gratitude; informality; modern religiosity; Hirap-Ginhawa; Philosophy; Religion; Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/42; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=philo-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The play in the performance of panatà to the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, demonstrates an authentic religiosity that is manifested in materiality, and a modernity that is indigenous. The paper operates within the framework of a panatà (devotion) as: (1) a personal (even inherited) secret vow; (...