This philosophical exploration navigates the slippery terrains of the Sacred between Secularism
and Fundamentalism. Renegotiating the Sacred attempts to map out the landscape of religious
consciousness of the Filipinos in contemporary time by critically rereading both the Western
and local thinkers who grappled with this theme. By contesting the predominance of the binary
'profane-sacred' as lens of interpretation especially when it comes to philosophy of religion
this multi-disciplinary research tries to unravel the knots and knurls of the sacred and its
entanglement into the dizzying web of socio-cultural structures political tensions economic
marginalization and philosophical-theological questions.
