Babaylan : Filipinos and the call of the indigenous / Leny Mendoza Strobel

Introduction: Babaylan work begins in the body: where is your body? Babaylan Stories -- Chapters: Our Babaylan-Inspired Stories: I. The Babaylan in Me / Sister Mary John Mananzan -- II. An ancient reed of wholeness -- The Babaylan / Katrin de Guia -- III. She dances in wholeness / Agnes N. Miclat-Cacayan -- IV. To our Lola's house: a pilgrimage to the place of beginnings, a collective family album / Ceres Pioquinto -- V. Babaylan Urduja, Imperial memories and the Filipina diaspora / Tera Maxwell -- VI. Katibuk-an: My journey towards wholeness / Venus Herbito -- VII. Babaylan -- our Filipino spiritual heritage / Teresita Obusan -- VIII. Accessing my Filipina spiritual authority / Trisha Agbulos Cabeje -- IX. A deep listening: Inang Bayan calls me home / Karen Villanueva -- X. Fusion and fission / Michelle Bautista -- XI. Dawac/Action: A Babaylan poetics / Eileen Tabios -- XII. Decolonization and the Filipino Arts Community in Los Angeles / Marjorie Light -- XIII. Re-imagining possibilities: before their words / Maiana Minahal -- XIV. A Babaylan in Rome: an interview with Charito Basa / Marianita Villariba.