Pasyon at Revolution Read PH

Pasyon at Revolution
By: Reynaldo Ileto
Albiento, Advincula, Dela Cruz,Diokno,Sayat

Hint: Happens during Holy week
Answer: Pasyon
Hint: a forcible overthrow of a government or
social order, in favor of a new system.
Answer: Revolution
Hint: Father of the Philippine
Revolution against Spain
Answer: Andres Bonifacio
Hint: the act of setting up a colony away
from one's place of origin.
Answer: Colonization
Background of the Author
Place and Date of Birth: October 3, 1946 , Manila, Philippines
Ethnicity: Filipino
Father: Rafael Ileto
Education: 1963-1967 AB degree in Humanities from Ateneo de Manila University
-1967 Awarded a 4-year Humanities and Social Sciences scholarship by Cornel
University
-1970 MA Southeast Asian and Modern Chinese History, Cornell University
-19Ph.D.Ph.D. Southeast Asian history and anthropology, Cornell University
-1974-1976 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian
National University (ANU) Prof. Dr. Reynaldo Ileto 'Rey"
Achievements
-1984-1985 Taṅada Distinguished Professorial Chair in History, De la Salle
University, Manila
-1985 Winner of the Harry Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies Association
for Asian Studies, U.S.A.)
-1986-1985 Winner of Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation Prize by
Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation
-1999 Philippine National Book Awards- first prize in History
- 2003 Fukuoka academic prize for his scholarship.
-2011 Grant Goodman Prize in Philippine History
About the Book
When was the book published? January 1, 1979
The synopsis and highlighted message about the book recalls the historical time
where events took place of the people’s passion and belief; and where it constructs to
the masses on a deeper level, and where Reynaldo wanted to portray how these
sufferings, redemptions, and deaths still go by to everyday living and where it settles
to be significantly robust and visible. The book also displays the Philippine revolution
in the background and context of native traditions, and where it discusses the
persistence of radial peasant brotherhoods in this century.
About the book
A further interesting dimension of this literature on peasant social movements is

the scope it provides for writing "history from below" in my view. Iletos' excellent
examination of the Philippine peasantries' experience of Holy Week and the
meaning of the "pasyon" gives us local perspectives and details on peasant
protest. (Principe Carlos, January 27, 2011)
People Involved
Some of the people involved in the book ‘Pasyon and Revolution’ are
prominent Filipinos during the colonial period of the Philippines under
Spanish rule. People like Apolinario de la Cruz and the Cofradía de San José,
Andres Bonifacio and Macario Sakay, both part of the Katipunan, Felipe
Salvador’s Santa Iglesia, the Column Society and other prominent groups
and movements during the Spanish and American colonization.
Reason of writing
Reynaldo Ileto was determined to start writing the book by much of the same conditions that
led Filipinos, especially the youth to question the nature or disposition of our society and
politics in the late sixties and early seventies.
It was shown in the book that it's not just the libraries and archives that presented interesting
materials but also the people around him who were asking many of the same questions about
the relationship between the past and the present.
Reason of writing
Ileto’s direction of thinking was confirmed by his couple of unrelated experiences in

1971, one of which was when he heard from an activist priest named Fr. Ed de la Torre
described to a student audience the idiom of liberation that, he had discovered,
Tagalog peasants best related to; it had to do with a certain understanding of
Christ's passion, death, and resurrection.
Period of writing
Ileto’s basic research for this book was done during a time of the great cascade of
energy from many sections of the general public, in the Philippines in 1971 and
early 1972.
-The book was drafted during the first two years of Martial Law.
-The final writing was published in 1979

Bias of the Author
Reynaldo attempted to reconstruct the categories of perception of “the masses” by

using the religious performance of the suffering and death of Christ, the pasyon, as
source material.
According to Joseph Scalice (2018), critical re-examination of Reynaldo’s work
reveals that the attempt was deeply flawed. It engaged with the pasyon as a literary
text, ignored the significance of its performance and it was treated in an ahistorical
manner. The pasyon was a cross-class and linguistically specific phenomenon.
Bias of the author
According to Maria-Luisa Camagay (2016) if there is one sadly neglected or rarely
studied aspect of the Philippine struggle for independence, it might well be the
Filipino masses' idea of a revolution.
It is this lack of information about popular perceptions of Western concepts such
as nationalism and independence that makes Ileto's work invaluable.
According to Reynaldo, the Pasyon also provided "powerful images of transition
from one state or era to another." He cites the transition from darkness to light,
from despair to hope, from misery to salvation, from death to life, from ignorance
to knowledge, and so on.
Bias of the author
Reynaldo paid particular attention to the grass-root masses and marginalized people of
the society, this enabled him to provide and write a fresh perspective with a new view of
the revolution that concentrates on the ordinary people rather than the elites by gaining
a deep understanding of the spirit of those people who resisted colonial rule.
Reynaldo vividly describes with sympathy the succession of popular movements and
charismatic leaders, which preceded the outbreak of the revolution. In recent years, he
harshly criticized the Orientalism of American researchers, which is characterized by an
approach and thinking focused through the lens of their own Western culture.
Bias of the author
To conclude, Professor Ileto has successfully presented a self-portrait of the history

and culture of the Philippines which enables fellow Filipinos to take pride in their own
heritage without falling into a trap of narrow-minded exclusionary nationalism.
References
Principe Carlos, Pasyon and Revolution (Journeys and Essays, January 27, 2011)
http://journeysandessays.blogspot.com/2011/01/pasyon-and-revolution.html
Maria-Luisa Camagay, Reynaldo Clemena Ileto, Pasyon and Revolution, Popular.
Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910 (Persée: Accéder à Des Milliers De Publications
Scientifiques - Persée, Archipel 23, March 14, 2016) pp. 208-210
https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_1982_num_23_1_1738
Joseph Scalice, Reynaldo Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution Revisited, a Critique (Sojourn:
Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 33, no. 1, 2018) pp. 29–58.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26529796
References
Australian National University (College of Asia and the Pacific), Reynaldo Ileto (2018)
https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/reynaldo-ileto
Fukuoka Prize, Reynaldo C. ILETO (Fukuoka Prize, August, 29, 2022)

https://fukuoka-prize.org/en/laureates/detail/23c0e846-12a6-413f-a3a3-
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Pasyon at Revolution

By: Reynaldo Ileto

Albiento, Advincula, Dela Cruz,Diokno,Sayat

A further interesting dimension of this literature on peasant social movements is

Ileto’s direction of thinking was confirmed by his couple of unrelated experiences in

-The final writing was published in 1979

Reynaldo attempted to reconstruct the categories of perception of “the masses” by

To conclude, Professor Ileto has successfully presented a self-portrait of the history

Fukuoka Prize, Reynaldo C. ILETO (Fukuoka Prize, August, 29, 2022)

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