TY - BOOK AU - Gowing,Peter Gordon,1930-1983 TI - Understanding Islam and Muslims in the Philippines SN - 9711003864 AV - FIL DS 666 .M8 U53 U1 - FIL 297.1 PY - 1988/// CY - Quezon City PB - New Day Publishers KW - Muslims (Pilipinos) KW - Philippines KW - Islam KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Contents; Part one: Islam; Islam in a multi-religious society; Church and Mosque: confrontation of symposium?; Some aspects of the history of Islam in Southeast Asia; Notes on the contact history of Mindanao and Sulu; Part two: Muslim Filipino ethnology; The anthropology of Christianity and Islam in the Philippines: a bi-polar approach to divrsity; The meeting of the Tausug and Zamboanga worlds; Parrang Sabbil: ritual suicide among the Tausug of Solo; Tiruray-Maguindanaon ethnic relations: an ethnohistorical puzzle; Ramadhan as observed in Lanao; Muslim progress through social change; Part three: Muslims and the Philippine Nation; Reflections on the Moro wars and the new Filipino; The Cotabato conflict: impressions of an outsider; Maguindanaon hopes and fears from the constitutional convention; The Philippines State and "secularized" Muslim concepts: aspects and problems; Development program for Mindanao and Sulu: retrospect and prospect; Contrasting agenda for peace in the Muslim South; The tragedy in Mindanao and Sulu and some thoughts about the way out-a communique from the eight annual seminar ER -