Indigenization as Appropriation (What Being Baptized Could Have Meant for the Natives of Cebu in 1521)

• Main Authors: David, Pablo Virgilio S., Ibita, Maricel S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Appropriation; Evangelization; Indigenous hospitality; Indigenous religions; Magellan; Pigafetta; Arts and Humanities; Catholic Studies; History of Christianity; Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/87; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47500-9_2
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Everything that we know about the two main events related to the 500th Year of the Arrival of Christianity in the Philippines—namely, the First Mass and the First Baptism—comes mainly from the Chronicles of Antonio Pigafetta. Did the natives who joined the Mass and “submitted” themselves to a Christ...