Learning the Code of Plural

Jayeel S. Cornelio explores the practices of the religiously plural within a single denomination, as well as the institutional pushes and pulls that result from this plurality, an overlooked space within the study of religious practice. This response, framed within an overarching theme of religious plurality, briefly engages two points that emerge from the text: (1) institutional formations within Catholicism, and (2) the codes of religious affiliation. It describes how Cornelio explores the dividing lines of institutionality and orthodoxy, on the one hand, and creativity and heterodoxy, on the other, and explores how “creative Catholics” engage and constitute new codes of religious plurality in the Philippines.