Activist Filipino Writes About Life That Matters
Rey Abaya, born in the Philippines but now living in Hayward, California, has just published a book titled "A Life That Matters: Autobiographical Essays of a Filipino Activist." Calling himself a progressive Filipino Catholic, he expounds on how this has colored his responses to life's challenges, including the loss of his wife to cancer and his own travails as a cancer patient.
Hayward, CA, November 20, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Rey Abaya, who was born in the Philippines but now lives in Hayward, California, has just published his first book titled A Life That Matters: Autobiographical Essays of a Filipino Activist, now available at Amazon (Amazon.com) and Barnes and Noble (BarnesandNoble.com).
The author's first book covers the following: his early years in a Catholic seminary; his experiential and ideological roots as an activist; his transition to Indonesia; fond stories about his family; portraits of key people who influenced him; philosophical reflections and ruminations; life-altering events in his life like his heart attack at 43 and the death of his wife at 55 due to metastatic breast cancer; and his own continuing travails as a cancer patient himself.
The author has BA and MA degrees in Philosophy, as well as an MBA degree; he is as much a thinker as a pragmatic manager, comfortably straddling between reflection and action.
The author traces his activist roots to his teenage years when he was studying for the priesthood in the Philippines. He was involved in social work with farmers, and one of his mentors was Jerry Montemayor, the Jesuit-trained Filipino farmer-advocate and social reformer, about whom he wrote his masters thesis in Philosophy. Expelled from the seminary for his social activism, he turned to teaching Philosophy in Catholic colleges, but his teaching career was shortened when the school heads, bowing to pressure from the Marcos government, terminated his services.
Concentrating on developing other skills, the author earned his MBA degree while working full time as a marketing executive for a multinational company. Subsequently recruited to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, he eventually became a successful top business executive there.
Although he acknowledges that he has remained a Catholic, the author avows that he is the progressive type, something of a rarity among Catholics. Even in the United States, he has remained involved in progressive issues; he is a union steward in his work site, a political activist, and a residents’ advocate in the mobile home park where he lives.
The author believes in a God that intervenes in the daily affairs of the world through ordinary men like him who actively participate in God’s transforming action because they feel the immanent God deep within themselves.
The author spent considerable time in other countries, having lived 18 years in Jakarta, Indonesia, as a top business manager before coming to the United States, where he has been living for 11 years now.
The author has a website, http://reynaldoabaya.com/, where visitors can download as many as 14 chapters of his 27-chapter book. They can find these in page 3 of the website (A Peek At My Book) under the heading Downloadable Chapters.
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The author's first book covers the following: his early years in a Catholic seminary; his experiential and ideological roots as an activist; his transition to Indonesia; fond stories about his family; portraits of key people who influenced him; philosophical reflections and ruminations; life-altering events in his life like his heart attack at 43 and the death of his wife at 55 due to metastatic breast cancer; and his own continuing travails as a cancer patient himself.
The author has BA and MA degrees in Philosophy, as well as an MBA degree; he is as much a thinker as a pragmatic manager, comfortably straddling between reflection and action.
The author traces his activist roots to his teenage years when he was studying for the priesthood in the Philippines. He was involved in social work with farmers, and one of his mentors was Jerry Montemayor, the Jesuit-trained Filipino farmer-advocate and social reformer, about whom he wrote his masters thesis in Philosophy. Expelled from the seminary for his social activism, he turned to teaching Philosophy in Catholic colleges, but his teaching career was shortened when the school heads, bowing to pressure from the Marcos government, terminated his services.
Concentrating on developing other skills, the author earned his MBA degree while working full time as a marketing executive for a multinational company. Subsequently recruited to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, he eventually became a successful top business executive there.
Although he acknowledges that he has remained a Catholic, the author avows that he is the progressive type, something of a rarity among Catholics. Even in the United States, he has remained involved in progressive issues; he is a union steward in his work site, a political activist, and a residents’ advocate in the mobile home park where he lives.
The author believes in a God that intervenes in the daily affairs of the world through ordinary men like him who actively participate in God’s transforming action because they feel the immanent God deep within themselves.
The author spent considerable time in other countries, having lived 18 years in Jakarta, Indonesia, as a top business manager before coming to the United States, where he has been living for 11 years now.
The author has a website, http://reynaldoabaya.com/, where visitors can download as many as 14 chapters of his 27-chapter book. They can find these in page 3 of the website (A Peek At My Book) under the heading Downloadable Chapters.
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