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Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.It explores inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late 19th century.
The novel was written by José Rizal, one of the leaders of the Propaganda Movement in the Philippines. Noli Me Tángere ( Touch Me Not or "Social Cancer") is a controversial and anticlerical novel that exposed the abuses committed by the Spanish friars (belonging to the Roman Catholic Church ) and the Spanish elite in colonial Philippines ...
The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion ...
Makamisa (English: After Mass) is an unfinished novel by Filipino patriot and writer José Rizal. The original manuscript was found by historian Ambeth Ocampo in 1987 while going through a 245-page collection of papers. This draft is written in pure, vernacular Lagueño Tagalog and has no written direct signature or date of inscription.
Charles E. Derbyshire (January 17, 1880 – April 10, 1933) was an American educator and translator active in the Philippines in the early 20th century. Derbyshire is best known for his English translations of Filipino nationalist José Rizal's novels Noli Me Tángere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), titled The Social Cancer and The Reign of Greed, respectively.
El Filibusterismo (transl. The filibusterism; The Subversive or The Subversion, as in the Locsín English translation, are also possible translations), also known by its alternative English title The Reign of Greed, [1] is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal.
The Iglesia Watawat ng Lahi's doctrine was derived from Roman Catholic teachings and Philippine nationalism as exemplified through the literary works of José Rizal.The organization of the group is composed of two distinct lines; an ecclesiastical group which is composed of the group's religious leaders headed by the "Supreme Bishop", who is a member of the group's Board of Directors; and a ...
As regards the third notion, Dr. Rizal believed that if one was to "understand" God, he was going to do well to note that books which others claimed were tools of revelation were not reliable. The reason was books were too removed from actual reality as these were written by people, interpreted by others, rewritten by people, obscured by others ...