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Article: Negotiating complex identities: scholar, artist, minister and more: Filipina-American theologian values being 'multilingual'.(Word Made Fresh)(Rachel Bundang. leading Asian/Pacific-American Catholic theological ethicist)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 26, 2003
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Rachel Bundang rocks.
She sings, plays jazz and gospel piano, and listens to hip-hop, classical and Brazilian music. On her laptop are musical selections from Los Amigos Invisibles, a Venezuelan funk group. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Tagalog, a language used in the Philippines. She moves from stage to pulpit to Manhattan street with aplomb. She talks politics, art, culture and religion, peppering her sentences with language taken from urban neighborhoods and the halls of academe. She studied tap and ballet as a child and took up modern dance in college, and then there's salsa dancing, of course, at parties.
Bundang is also a leading ...