The Anticlericalism of Jose Rizal
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Authors
Meyer, Lois M.
Issue Date
1971
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
A study of the anti-clericalism of the Filipino reformer
Jose Rizal must invariably forfeit objectivity in the intense
emotionalism which characterizes the writings and documents
surrounding the reformer's life and thoughts. In the
Philippines of the late nineteenth century, a colony desperately
preserved by Spain's religious corporations as both
Catholic and Spanish, Rizal's anticlerical attacks were much
too personal to be treated objectively. In novels, articles,
satires and essays, the sword of Rizal's pen slashed out at
the Philippine Catholic Church, trying to cut away that which
he saw as superfluous and damning within the spiritual body.
Flinching with sacred indignation at each defaming attack,
the corporations responded with irate accusations of "anti-Catholic"
and "atheist". Rizal and his writings became the
objects of either violent denunciations or enthusiastic
support, the opposing extremes of an emotional continuum. The
objectivity which is characterized by cold unemotionalism and
reasoned judgment was virtually unknown.
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iii, 63 p.
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