Introduction to a Review Symposium on Jayeel S. Cornelio’s Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines (2016): New Perspectives on Contemporary Filipino Catholicism

Adrian Hermann is a full professor of religion and society and director of the Department of Religion Studies at Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, Universität Bonn. His work focuses on the global history of the concept of “religion” and the religious history of the globalized world. He has published on conceptual issues in studying world Christianity and the history of Christianity in the Philippines around 1900. He is the author of Unterscheidungen der Religion: Analysen zum globalen Religionsdiskurs und dem Problem der Differenzierung von “Religion” in buddhistischen Kontexten des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2015) and the co-editor (with Klaus Koschorke) of Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014). He is currently working on a monograph on the early history of the “Iglesia Filipina Independiente” in the context of Asian independent Catholicism around 1900.