AGNES M. BRAZAL
PhD/STD in Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Licentiate in Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
MA Theological Studies (cand.), Maryhill School of TheologyBS Management Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University
PhD/STD in Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Licentiate in Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
MA Theological Studies (cand.), Maryhill School of TheologyBS Management Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University
Agnes M. Brazal is a full-time faculty member at the Maryhill School of Theology. She is the current President of DAKATEO (Damdaming Katoliko sa Teolohiya sa Pilipinas-Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines), past coordinator and consultant of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia, and member of the Planning Committee for the Catholic Theological Ethics in a World Church (2007-10). She is also the Theology and Religious Studies series editor of the Ateneo de Manila University Press and an Editorial Board member of the Asian Christian Review. She obtained her licentiate and doctorate from the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven.
Her main research interests are postcolonial-intercultural methods, migration, feminist and Filipino-Asian theologies/ethics. She has published essays in local and international journals and anthologies (published by Peeters, Continuum, Orbis), co-edited a number of books published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and authored a textbook series for grade school children.
Her grants/awards include being winner of the 2003 MWI (Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen) international academic essay contest on Contextual Theology and Philosophy on the theme “Religious Identity and Migration”. She was also a recipient of a visiting fellowship grant at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in 2006 and the book Body and Sexuality was a finalist in the 2007 National Book Award granted by the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board.
Dissertation Work:
“Recasting Liberation Theology’s Classic Methodological Mediations: A Proposed Way of Integrating Contextual-Cultural [Feminist] Values and Perspectives,” a doctoral dissertation defended at the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, 1998.
“John Paul II on Labour and Culture: A Critical Assessment in the Light of Hegel and Marx”, an unpublished thesis submitted to the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Licentiate in Sacred Theology, 1994.
Her main research interests are postcolonial-intercultural methods, migration, feminist and Filipino-Asian theologies/ethics. She has published essays in local and international journals and anthologies (published by Peeters, Continuum, Orbis), co-edited a number of books published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and authored a textbook series for grade school children.
Her grants/awards include being winner of the 2003 MWI (Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen) international academic essay contest on Contextual Theology and Philosophy on the theme “Religious Identity and Migration”. She was also a recipient of a visiting fellowship grant at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in 2006 and the book Body and Sexuality was a finalist in the 2007 National Book Award granted by the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board.
Dissertation Work:
“Recasting Liberation Theology’s Classic Methodological Mediations: A Proposed Way of Integrating Contextual-Cultural [Feminist] Values and Perspectives,” a doctoral dissertation defended at the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, 1998.
“John Paul II on Labour and Culture: A Critical Assessment in the Light of Hegel and Marx”, an unpublished thesis submitted to the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for Licentiate in Sacred Theology, 1994.
Publications
Books
Growing Up as Christians in God’s Family Series (Grades 1-6 Textbooks). Trinitas Publishing, Bulacan, 2009.
Edited Books
(with Eric Marcelo Genilo, sj, Aloysius Cartagenas and James Keenan, sj). Transformative Theological Ethics: East Asian Contexts. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010. (Distributed in the USA by the University of Hawai’i Press).
(with Fabio Baggio. cs). Faith on the Move: Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008. (Distributed in the USA by the University of Hawai’i Press).
(with Andrea Lizares Si). Body and Sexuality: Theological-Pastoral Perspectives of Women in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007.
Edited Journals (Special Issue)
(with Daniel Franklin Pilario, cm). Interdisciplinarity in Theology. Hapag: Journal of Interdisciplinary Theological Research 4, nos. 1-2 (2007).
Articles/Book Chapters
"East Asian Discourses on Harmony: A Mediation for Catholic Social Teaching." In Catholic Social Teaching in Global Perspective. Edited by Dan McDonald. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2010.
"Redeeming the Vernacular: Doing Postcolonial-Intercultural Theological Ethics." Asian Horizons 4, no. 1 (June 2010): 50-66.
"A 'Models' Approach: Teaching Fundamental Moral Theology in an Intercultural World," in Transformative Theological Ethics: East Asian Contexts. Edited by Agnes Brazal, Aloysius Cartagenas, Eric Genilo and James Keenan. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010.
Forthcoming. "Harnessing Cultural Resources Toward Solidarity." MST Review 11,
no. 1 (2009).
“Gender and Migration: Theological Challenges.” Exodus Series 13: A Resource Guide for the Migrant Ministry in Asia. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.
"Can the Real Paul Stand Up? Paul and Women's Leadership in the Church." MST Review 10, no. 1 (2008): 38-60.
“Die Interkulturelle Kirche als Brücke der Solidarität im Migrationskontext,” in Für ein Leben in Fülle: Visionen einer missionarischen Kirche Für Hermann Schalück, 66-75. Herausgegeben von Richard Brosse und Katja Heidemanns. Freiburg: Herder, 2008.
“Information, Sex Education and Church Intervention in Public Policy in the Philippines” In Calling for Justice throughout the World: Catholic Women Theologians Considering the Moral Ramifications of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Edited by Mary Jo Iozzio, Elsie Miranda and Mary Roche. New York: Continuum.2008
“Cultural Rights and Migrants: A Philosophico-Theological Exploration.” Asian Christian Review 1, no. 3 (2008): 31-50.
“Cultural Rights and Migrants: A Philosophico-Theological Exploration.” In Faith on the Move: Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007.
“Globalization and Catholic Theological Ethics: A Southeast Asian Perspective.” In Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church: The Plenary Papers from the First Cross-cultural Conference on Catholic Theological Ethics, 74-81. Edited by James Keenan. New York: Continuum, 2007.
(co-author with Daniel Franklin Pilario, CM) “Disciplines, Interdisciplinary and Theology.” In Interdisciplinary in Theology, 5-25. Quezon City: DAKATEO. 2007.
(co-author with Ma. Anicia Co, RVM). “Fusion of Horizons: Women Naming and Celebrating their God-Experience.” In Discipleship of Asian Women at the Service of Life, 199-221. Edited by Virginia Saldanha. Bangalore, India: Claretian Publications, 2007.
“Interculturality – A Challenge in the Postmodern World.” In Asian Consultation on Harmony through Reconciliation/FEISA VII: 40th Anniversary of the Pastoral Constitution on Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes), 167-74. January 16-21, 2006. Edited by Bro. Anthony Rogers, FSC.
“Interculturality – A Challenge in the Postmodern World.” Info on Human Development 32, nos. 4-6 (April-Hune 2006): 28-30.
“Interculturality in the Migration Context: Missiological Reflections vis-à-vis P. Bourdieu.” Utopia hat einem Ort: Beiträge für eine interkulturelle, 125-134. Edited by Elisabeth Steffens and Annette Meuthrath. Welt aus vier Kontinenten. London: Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
“Interculturality in the Migration Context: Missiological Reflections vis-à-vis P. Bourdieu.” MST Review: A Journal of Theological and Cultural Studies.
“Mission and Power.” In the Mission to Proclaim and to Celebrate Christian Existence,20-35. Edited by peter de Mey, Jacques Haers and Jozef Lamberts. Peeters: Leuven.
“Entkriminalisierung der Prostitution auf den Philippinen – eine chrisliche Antworf auf die Tragik? In Das Schweigen brechen: Asiatische Theologinnen ringen um die befreiende Dimension des Glaubens, 28-47. Edited by Hyondok Choe and Annette Meuthrath. Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, 2005.
“Ne pas ‘perde la face’, tender vers une harmonie sociale.” Mission de l’Eglise 148 (April 2005)
“Migration and the Transformation of Ethnic and Religious Identities: The Mindanao-Sulu Experience.” In Migration and Interculturality: Theological and Philosophical Challenges. 121-132. Edited by Raúl Fornet-Betancourt. Aachen: Missionswissenschaftliches Institut Missio e.V., 2005.
“Decriminalizing Prostitution in the Philippines: A Christian Response to the Tragic?” Hapag 2, no.2 (2005): 229-248.
“Beyond the Religious and Social Divide: The Emergin Mindanawan Identity.” Chakana: Intercultural Forum of Theology and Philosophy 2 (2004) 3: 7-26. (Winning essay in the 2003 MWI- Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen – international academic essay contest for Contextual Theology and Philosophy.) 2004.
“Missie en macht.” Wereld and Zending: Tijdschrift voor interculturele theologie 1 (2004): 38 -51.
“Descriminalizing Prostitution in the Philippines: A Christian Response to the Tragic?” In Breaking the Silence: Ecclesia of Women in Asia: Gathering the Voices of the Silenced, 3-21. Edited by Evelyn Monteiro and Antoinette Gutzler. Delhi: ISPCK.
“Reinventing Pakikipagkapwa: Initial Exploration towards a Filipino Ecofeminist Response to ‘Difference.’” In Pluralism and Fundamentalism in the Church, 50-70. Manila: Dakateo.
“Fundamentalism and Filipino Religiosity.” In Lecture Series 3: Spirituality, 11-33. Quezon City: Center for Spirituality-Manila.
“Use of Mediations in Liberation Theologies: A Philippine Perspective” In The Use of Mediations in Theology: George De Schrijver’s Wager and the Theologies of Liberation, 65-82. Edited by E. Guzman, J. Haers, L.F. Lesigues and D.F. Pilario. Leuven: Peeters, 2003.
(co-author: Sr. Ma. Anicia Co). “Fusion of Horizons: Women Naming and Celebrating their God-Experience.” MST Review (2003): 163-188. Presented a paper as a key speaker at the conference of the Bishops’ Institute for Lay Apostolate (BILA) on “Women’s God Experience Rotted in Life,” Hua-Hin, Thailand, October, 2001.
“Patriarchal Relations: Reinforced or Undermined? Globalization and Employment of Women’s Labor.” MST Review 4 n.1 (2000): 17-29.
“Feminist Ideology Criticisms, the Bible and the Community.” MST Review 2 n.2 (1999): 97-117.
“A Response to Feminist Theology in Conversation.” Himig Ugnayan 1 n.2 (1999): 44-51.
“Exploring Some Epistemological Implications of the Shift in Third World Theologies of Liberation.” In Liberation Theologies on Shifting Grounds: A Clash of Socio-Economic and Cultural Paradigms, 273-286. Edited by Georges De Schrijver. Leuven: Leuven University, 1998.
“Inculturation: An Interpretative Model for Feminist Revisions of Liturgical Praxis?” MST Review 2 (1997): 21-33.
“Inculturation: An Interpretative Model for Feminist Revisions of Liturgical Praxis?” Questions Liturgiques ½ (1996): 124-134.
“Inculturatie; een interpretatiemodel voor een feministische herziening van de liturgische praktijk?” In Liturgie en inculturatie. Verslagboek van het twaalfde liturgiecolloquium van het Liturgisch Institut van de K.U. Leuven – Oktober 1995, 181-193. Edited by J. Lamberts. Leuven: Acco, 1996.
“Exploring Some Epistemological Implications of the Shift in Third World Theologies of Liberation.” Inter-Sectiones 4 (1996): 13-23.
6th Conference of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, August 1995. Inter-Sectiones no. 4 (1995): 28-30.
“John Paul II on Labour and Culture: An Assessment in the Light of Hegel and Marx,” Inter-Sectiones n1 (1995): 11-29.
Interview. “Vasten Geeft de Woede een Nieuw Perspectief” Wereldwijd 252 (Maart 1995) 46-48.
Books
Growing Up as Christians in God’s Family Series (Grades 1-6 Textbooks). Trinitas Publishing, Bulacan, 2009.
Edited Books
(with Eric Marcelo Genilo, sj, Aloysius Cartagenas and James Keenan, sj). Transformative Theological Ethics: East Asian Contexts. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010. (Distributed in the USA by the University of Hawai’i Press).
(with Fabio Baggio. cs). Faith on the Move: Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2008. (Distributed in the USA by the University of Hawai’i Press).
(with Andrea Lizares Si). Body and Sexuality: Theological-Pastoral Perspectives of Women in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007.
Edited Journals (Special Issue)
(with Daniel Franklin Pilario, cm). Interdisciplinarity in Theology. Hapag: Journal of Interdisciplinary Theological Research 4, nos. 1-2 (2007).
Articles/Book Chapters
"East Asian Discourses on Harmony: A Mediation for Catholic Social Teaching." In Catholic Social Teaching in Global Perspective. Edited by Dan McDonald. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2010.
"Redeeming the Vernacular: Doing Postcolonial-Intercultural Theological Ethics." Asian Horizons 4, no. 1 (June 2010): 50-66.
"A 'Models' Approach: Teaching Fundamental Moral Theology in an Intercultural World," in Transformative Theological Ethics: East Asian Contexts. Edited by Agnes Brazal, Aloysius Cartagenas, Eric Genilo and James Keenan. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010.
Forthcoming. "Harnessing Cultural Resources Toward Solidarity." MST Review 11,
no. 1 (2009).
“Gender and Migration: Theological Challenges.” Exodus Series 13: A Resource Guide for the Migrant Ministry in Asia. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.
"Can the Real Paul Stand Up? Paul and Women's Leadership in the Church." MST Review 10, no. 1 (2008): 38-60.
“Die Interkulturelle Kirche als Brücke der Solidarität im Migrationskontext,” in Für ein Leben in Fülle: Visionen einer missionarischen Kirche Für Hermann Schalück, 66-75. Herausgegeben von Richard Brosse und Katja Heidemanns. Freiburg: Herder, 2008.
“Information, Sex Education and Church Intervention in Public Policy in the Philippines” In Calling for Justice throughout the World: Catholic Women Theologians Considering the Moral Ramifications of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Edited by Mary Jo Iozzio, Elsie Miranda and Mary Roche. New York: Continuum.2008
“Cultural Rights and Migrants: A Philosophico-Theological Exploration.” Asian Christian Review 1, no. 3 (2008): 31-50.
“Cultural Rights and Migrants: A Philosophico-Theological Exploration.” In Faith on the Move: Toward a Theology of Migration in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007.
“Globalization and Catholic Theological Ethics: A Southeast Asian Perspective.” In Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church: The Plenary Papers from the First Cross-cultural Conference on Catholic Theological Ethics, 74-81. Edited by James Keenan. New York: Continuum, 2007.
(co-author with Daniel Franklin Pilario, CM) “Disciplines, Interdisciplinary and Theology.” In Interdisciplinary in Theology, 5-25. Quezon City: DAKATEO. 2007.
(co-author with Ma. Anicia Co, RVM). “Fusion of Horizons: Women Naming and Celebrating their God-Experience.” In Discipleship of Asian Women at the Service of Life, 199-221. Edited by Virginia Saldanha. Bangalore, India: Claretian Publications, 2007.
“Interculturality – A Challenge in the Postmodern World.” In Asian Consultation on Harmony through Reconciliation/FEISA VII: 40th Anniversary of the Pastoral Constitution on Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes), 167-74. January 16-21, 2006. Edited by Bro. Anthony Rogers, FSC.
“Interculturality – A Challenge in the Postmodern World.” Info on Human Development 32, nos. 4-6 (April-Hune 2006): 28-30.
“Interculturality in the Migration Context: Missiological Reflections vis-à-vis P. Bourdieu.” Utopia hat einem Ort: Beiträge für eine interkulturelle, 125-134. Edited by Elisabeth Steffens and Annette Meuthrath. Welt aus vier Kontinenten. London: Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
“Interculturality in the Migration Context: Missiological Reflections vis-à-vis P. Bourdieu.” MST Review: A Journal of Theological and Cultural Studies.
“Mission and Power.” In the Mission to Proclaim and to Celebrate Christian Existence,20-35. Edited by peter de Mey, Jacques Haers and Jozef Lamberts. Peeters: Leuven.
“Entkriminalisierung der Prostitution auf den Philippinen – eine chrisliche Antworf auf die Tragik? In Das Schweigen brechen: Asiatische Theologinnen ringen um die befreiende Dimension des Glaubens, 28-47. Edited by Hyondok Choe and Annette Meuthrath. Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder, 2005.
“Ne pas ‘perde la face’, tender vers une harmonie sociale.” Mission de l’Eglise 148 (April 2005)
“Migration and the Transformation of Ethnic and Religious Identities: The Mindanao-Sulu Experience.” In Migration and Interculturality: Theological and Philosophical Challenges. 121-132. Edited by Raúl Fornet-Betancourt. Aachen: Missionswissenschaftliches Institut Missio e.V., 2005.
“Decriminalizing Prostitution in the Philippines: A Christian Response to the Tragic?” Hapag 2, no.2 (2005): 229-248.
“Beyond the Religious and Social Divide: The Emergin Mindanawan Identity.” Chakana: Intercultural Forum of Theology and Philosophy 2 (2004) 3: 7-26. (Winning essay in the 2003 MWI- Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen – international academic essay contest for Contextual Theology and Philosophy.) 2004.
“Missie en macht.” Wereld and Zending: Tijdschrift voor interculturele theologie 1 (2004): 38 -51.
“Descriminalizing Prostitution in the Philippines: A Christian Response to the Tragic?” In Breaking the Silence: Ecclesia of Women in Asia: Gathering the Voices of the Silenced, 3-21. Edited by Evelyn Monteiro and Antoinette Gutzler. Delhi: ISPCK.
“Reinventing Pakikipagkapwa: Initial Exploration towards a Filipino Ecofeminist Response to ‘Difference.’” In Pluralism and Fundamentalism in the Church, 50-70. Manila: Dakateo.
“Fundamentalism and Filipino Religiosity.” In Lecture Series 3: Spirituality, 11-33. Quezon City: Center for Spirituality-Manila.
“Use of Mediations in Liberation Theologies: A Philippine Perspective” In The Use of Mediations in Theology: George De Schrijver’s Wager and the Theologies of Liberation, 65-82. Edited by E. Guzman, J. Haers, L.F. Lesigues and D.F. Pilario. Leuven: Peeters, 2003.
(co-author: Sr. Ma. Anicia Co). “Fusion of Horizons: Women Naming and Celebrating their God-Experience.” MST Review (2003): 163-188. Presented a paper as a key speaker at the conference of the Bishops’ Institute for Lay Apostolate (BILA) on “Women’s God Experience Rotted in Life,” Hua-Hin, Thailand, October, 2001.
“Patriarchal Relations: Reinforced or Undermined? Globalization and Employment of Women’s Labor.” MST Review 4 n.1 (2000): 17-29.
“Feminist Ideology Criticisms, the Bible and the Community.” MST Review 2 n.2 (1999): 97-117.
“A Response to Feminist Theology in Conversation.” Himig Ugnayan 1 n.2 (1999): 44-51.
“Exploring Some Epistemological Implications of the Shift in Third World Theologies of Liberation.” In Liberation Theologies on Shifting Grounds: A Clash of Socio-Economic and Cultural Paradigms, 273-286. Edited by Georges De Schrijver. Leuven: Leuven University, 1998.
“Inculturation: An Interpretative Model for Feminist Revisions of Liturgical Praxis?” MST Review 2 (1997): 21-33.
“Inculturation: An Interpretative Model for Feminist Revisions of Liturgical Praxis?” Questions Liturgiques ½ (1996): 124-134.
“Inculturatie; een interpretatiemodel voor een feministische herziening van de liturgische praktijk?” In Liturgie en inculturatie. Verslagboek van het twaalfde liturgiecolloquium van het Liturgisch Institut van de K.U. Leuven – Oktober 1995, 181-193. Edited by J. Lamberts. Leuven: Acco, 1996.
“Exploring Some Epistemological Implications of the Shift in Third World Theologies of Liberation.” Inter-Sectiones 4 (1996): 13-23.
6th Conference of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, August 1995. Inter-Sectiones no. 4 (1995): 28-30.
“John Paul II on Labour and Culture: An Assessment in the Light of Hegel and Marx,” Inter-Sectiones n1 (1995): 11-29.
Interview. “Vasten Geeft de Woede een Nieuw Perspectief” Wereldwijd 252 (Maart 1995) 46-48.
