I’m a Philippine history professor and my articles mainly focused on promoting and educating people about the pre-colonial period.
I would like to inform people that “nothing is set in stone” because we are constantly gathering information and learning about our history, somethings may change in the future, but for now the things that I publish are the things that we currently perceive to “know about.”
Religiosity - It really depends from person to person but a lot of younger Filipinos are generally not as devout as their elders… I agree with Lex Avila… sometimes being overly (by the book) religious is seen as narrow minded, especially by the more educated ones… but at the same time, atheism among Filipinos is still generally unpopular.
- A lot of Filipino may identify with a religion, but don’t really practice it in a very strict conservative way… Ex: (You could see openly gay people going to church, Premarital sex… etc).
- There are also some Filipinos who don’t identify with religion but still hold some spiritual beliefs, (like me).
Basically, a lot of Filipinos are becoming less conservative when it comes to religious attitudes, but at the same times it’s still very rare to see a Filipino who completely doesn’t have any spiritual beliefs.
- (A lot of modern Filipinos are Christian by name, but in practice they are “spiritual but not religious”).
