Ferdinand D. Dagmang
Professorial Lecturer V
Educational Background
PhD in Religious Studies
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
MA in Theological Studies
Maryhill School of Theology
Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences
Ateneo de Davao
Dr. Ferdinand D. Dagmang is a professorial lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, and Maryhill School of Theology. He finished his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1991 with his dissertation: Liberation and Ethics: A Study of the Latin American Liberation Ethics. His books include: The Predicaments of Intimacy and Solidarity: Capitalism and Impingements (2010) and Basic Ecclesial Communities: An Evaluation of the Implementation of the Acts and Decrees of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines in Ten Parishes in the Philippines (2016). He has published several articles and monographs on the subjects of ethics, sexuality, popular religion and culture.
Research Interest
- Ethics, sexuality
- Popular religion
- Cultural studies
Selected Publications
- Dagmang, F. D. (2008). Malasakit (compassion) and damay (empathetic assistance): An indigenous world-embedded compensation and resistance at the margins. Unitas, 81(2), 307-336.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2010). The Predicaments of Intimacy and Solidarity: Capitalism and Impingements. Central Book Supply.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2012). Ecological way of understanding and explaining clergy sexual misconduct. Sexuality & Culture, 16(3), 287-305.
- Dagmang, F. (2015). From Vatican II to PCP II to BEC Too: Progressive Localization of a New State of Mind to a New State of Affairs. Revisiting Vatican II, 50, 308-26.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2015). Theory and Practice: The Aristotelian, Plotinian, and Marxian Perspectives. International Journal of Philosophy, 16, 2.
- Dagmang, F., & Cordero Jr, D. (2017). The pedicab drivers’ daily transgressions: Struggles for provision and care. MST Review, 19(2), 78-103.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2020). Society and Culture: Matrix and Schema for Character Formation.
- Dagmang, F. (2021). CULTURE AS ENABLER FOR SDGs: Learning from Jesus of Nazareth’s Vision/Mission. Journal of Dharma, 46(3), 345-362.
- Dagmang, F. (2021). Women in the Diocese of Boac’s Basic Ecclesial Communities: Pastoral Work and Organizing. MST Review, 23(2), 1-22.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2023). The Good Samaritan Parable and Helping Behavior Narratives in Emergency Situations during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case of Mutual Illumination. Louvain Studies, 46(2), 191-212.
- Dagmang, F. D. (2024). The enthronement of compassion and care and the unseating of customary obligation in the parable of the good Samaritan. Acta theologica, 44(1), 71-84.
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