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A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51022-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-51021-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 10, 2017

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Chapter 1Context and Challenges

Fung, Jojo M.

Pages: 1 –20

[I would like to begin with a description of the historical context of the Karen communities in the section “Context and Challenges of Modernization.” I will describe the ensuing challenges of modernization and the rise of the nation-state. Attention will be paid to the impact of modernization...
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Chapter 2Theoretical Framework on Sacredness and Sustainability

Fung, Jojo M.

Pages: 21 –41

[Sacredness has a history of being relegated by modernity but remained manifest among the indigenous peoples based on their relation with the spirit world. This will be explained in the section “Sacredness: A Cultural Notion and Tool of Negotiation.” This tool of negotiation is practiced in the...
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Chapter 3Sustaining Indigenous Religio-Cultural Traditions

Fung, Jojo M

Pages: 43 –64

[Much of what I know about the sacredness and sustainability comes from constant reading and regular visits to the indigenous communities in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. My own initiation and lived experiences in the Murut village of Bantul in Sabah, East Malaysia, has substantially...
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Chapter 4Indigenous Cosmologies of Sustainability

Fung, Jojo M

Pages: 65 –79

[By and large the indigenous peoples enjoy a rich knowledge and worldview related to the sustainable management of the cosmos (creation) and anthropos (humankind) in their ancestral homeland that is best described as the indigenous cosmologies of sustainability. These cosmologies, akin to...
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Chapter 5The Ensuing Challenges and Critiques

Fung, Jojo M

Pages: 81 –105

[The process of Karenization calls for a dynamic process of reconstructing the local knowledge of the indigenous communities. This reconstruction is aimed at a sustained advocacy and reassertion of the indigenous agency, culture, tradition and history of the Karen people. The challenges range...
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Chapter 6Sacred Sustainability: An Emerging Shamanic Pneumatology

Fung, Jojo M

Pages: 107 –144

[The conversation with members of the Karen community at Dokdaeng has generated this contextual understanding of a shamanic pneumatology of sacred sustainability of Asia. This emergent pneumatology will be generated within the theological framework of the Ecumenical Association of the Third World...
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Chapter 7Spirituality Of Mystic “Bodisciousness”

Fung, Jojo M

Pages: 145 –167

[The Mystical Age calls for the spirituality of mystic bodisciousness. The proposed mystic practice of “bodisciousness” involves the entire body during the “wake-ful” state to enter into a bodily felt sense of being in a mystical state. This state is a bodily feeling or a felt sense/experience...

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