ABSTRACT

Religious conversion from Catholicism to a Born Again denomination is an increasingly common phenomenon in the Philippines. Such conversions inspire personal narratives. Using various forms of testimony, new converts use autobiographical methods to narrate both an individual and universal story. The probative and transmissive dimensions of testimony are also affected by power figures, as these narrative forms are produced before the pastors in the new religion. What then of the reflexivity of the author of the testimony? Even if the conversion narrative contributes to the plausibility of the new social structure joined by the conversion, the latter can also be a source of reflexivity since it contains an internal dialogue with oneself.

摘要

在菲律宾，从天主教转向重生教派的宗教信仰日益普遍。这种转变激发了个人叙事。通过各种形式的证词，新皈依者使用自传的方法来讲述个人和普遍的故事。见证的证明性和传递性维度也受到权力人物的影响，因为这些叙事形式是在新宗教的牧师面前产生的。那么证词作者的反身性又如何呢？即使皈依叙事有助于使皈依所加入的新社会结构合理化，后者也可以成为反身性的来源，因为它包含与自己的内部对话。