Out of the Silence, the Men of Naujan Speak: Tagalog Texts from the Seventeenth Century

From Naujan on the island Mindoro in the seventeenth-century Spanish Philippines emerged two petitions written in Tagalog and addressed to the archbishop of Manila, asking for the continued presence of Jesuits replacing the secular priests assigned there. A close examination of the texts points...

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Main Author: Woods, Damon L.
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-40902024-08-07T03:42:03Z Out of the Silence, the Men of Naujan Speak: Tagalog Texts from the Seventeenth Century Woods, Damon L. From Naujan on the island Mindoro in the seventeenth-century Spanish Philippines emerged two petitions written in Tagalog and addressed to the archbishop of Manila, asking for the continued presence of Jesuits replacing the secular priests assigned there. A close examination of the texts points to the resident Jesuit as the force behind these petitions. Thearticle argues that, apart from refracting the conflict between the regular and secular clergy over the control of parishes, these documents recognize the agency of the men who signed it. Also explored are the question of the documents’ survival and the rewriting of history using materials in indigenous languages.Keywords: historiography • indigenous language • Mindoro •mendicant orders • missions 2015-08-24T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss3/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4090/viewcontent/6218.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description From Naujan on the island Mindoro in the seventeenth-century Spanish Philippines emerged two petitions written in Tagalog and addressed to the archbishop of Manila, asking for the continued presence of Jesuits replacing the secular priests assigned there. A close examination of the texts points to the resident Jesuit as the force behind these petitions. Thearticle argues that, apart from refracting the conflict between the regular and secular clergy over the control of parishes, these documents recognize the agency of the men who signed it. Also explored are the question of the documents’ survival and the rewriting of history using materials in indigenous languages.Keywords: historiography • indigenous language • Mindoro •mendicant orders • missions
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title Out of the Silence, the Men of Naujan Speak: Tagalog Texts from the Seventeenth Century
title_short Out of the Silence, the Men of Naujan Speak: Tagalog Texts from the Seventeenth Century
title_full Out of the Silence, the Men of Naujan Speak: Tagalog Texts from the Seventeenth Century
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