Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Book Chapters

2023. “Virtual Catholicism in the Philippines: An Analysis of Technology, Religion, and Kalooban in Time of Isolation”. In Philosophies of Appropriated Religions, edited by Sorah Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, and Frank J. Hoffman, 303-321. Singapore: Springer. 

2022. “Understanding Catholicism in a Shared Space for Religious Practices: An Analysis of Performing Sacred Vow to Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno of Quiapo.” In Black Nazarene: Devotion and Discourse, Nazareno Studies. Manila: UST and Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene.