THE COMING OF NEW ORDER: REORGANIZATION OF THE CUSTOMARY

PRACTICES OF ISNEG AS A RESULT OF

RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE

IVAN QUINONES
YLLANA MARIEL SUNIGA
JAENELLE SUNIGA
HAINAH JANELLE AGUINALDO
NOEL BARBERONA
RODIVERT BALAS
ROSCHEN AGATHA ANDRES
CRISSA TIFFANY FAELMOCA
ANGELINA CANGGAS
GIAN RANIEL SUNIGA
CARMELO MARIANO

Submitted to the Faculty of the Senior High Department

Dumalneg National High School
In partial fulfillment of the
Requirement for the
Academic Strand

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

S.Y. 2023-2024
 CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM

This chapter consists the background of the study, statement of the problem,

significance of the study, scope and delimitation, and definition of terms.

Background of the Study

Religion has a long history of revolutionizing the world. It is indeed that religion

made a great impact in the cultural countries, such as the Philippines. Christianity is the most

known religion in the country, it reorganized the different cultural beliefs and practices in

various places. Due to the different religious influence, provinces and tribes around the

country’s practices has been supersede by religious beliefs. Religion is also commonly

regarded as consisting of the way people deal with beliefs practices about their lives and their

faith. Because of religious diversity, cultural beliefs may get set aside by religious customs, it

also influenced the peoples way of living that it almost supersede their cultural beliefs.

In many regions, Christianity has played a role in superseding certain cultural beliefs

and practices. For example, in countries where Christianity has become dominant especially

here in the Philippines, traditional cultural practices related to marriage, celebrations, and

daily life may have been transformed or modified to align with Christian practices.

Religion is also commonly regarded as consisting of the way people deal with beliefs

practices about their lives and their fate after death. It is a collection of cultural systems,

belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral

values. And because of this, cultural beliefs may get set aside by religious customs. Religion

influenced our way of living that it almost supersede our cultural beliefs.
 Religious influences may cause different cultural practices to be reshaped.

Reorganization may rise if these religious beliefs would cover up our cultural practices. Such

as our way of living, practices and cultural belief system. These may happen if individuals

were to focus on their different religious sect, leading them to forget their community culture.

Under the Philippine constitution, Section 3, Article III. The people are enshrined to

practice any belief of religion or practices, otherwise in the contrary of law. However, these

religious beliefs may cause the reorganization of our cultural practices that is very essential to

us, culture practitioners.

In the tribe of Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte, the Isneg Tribe. According to Dumalneg

Elders, many of their practices were already reshaped due to different religions immerging in

the community. Dumalneg only has one religious sect before and that is, Iglesia Filipina

Independiente or IFI. With this having only one religious sect, nothing much would influence

the Isneg’s traditions. But on these present days, due to the rise of many more religious sect, a

lot of cultural beliefs of the said IP group has been reorganized as of today.

The purpose of this research is to know the cultural beliefs and practices that has been

slowly being unpracticed due to religious diversity. By exploring the intersections of religious

beliefs and cultural customs and how these set of beliefs affects indigenous cultural

communities’ practices. This study aims to prove the ways in which different faiths have

reshaped and reorganized the societal norms, rituals, and behaviors across diverse

communities. Through a comprehensive analysis, the research seeks to uncover the

multifaceted dynamics of religious influence on human culture and tradition, offering insights

into the complex interplay between spirituality, belief systems, and collective identity.
Statement of the Problem

This research aims to understand the impact of Religious to the practices and beliefs
of the IP community.

To specify, the question bellow helps the beneficiary to guide our exploration:

1. How do religions influence customary practices of the Indigenous People in

Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte?

Significance of the Study

This research is made with the aimed to add information and knowledge about the

chosen topic of Reorganization of the Customary Practices of Isneg as a result of Religious

Influence. This study will specifically benefit the Indigenous People, Students, Teachers, and

Future Researchers.

The Indigenous People will be able to know the positive and negative effects of

religion in their tradition, culture, and practices.

To the Teachers, the result of this study will be very useful for them to know and how

they will act and manage their teaching style to the Indigenous people student.

To the Students, the result of this study will help the student to provide insights into

the dynamics of religious beliefs, practices, and their impact on individuals and communities.

To the Future researches, the result of this study will be use as a reference when they

conduct another research similar to this topic.

Scope and Delimitation

This study focuses specifically on IP community which aimed to know the different

religious influences to the cultural practices of the indigenous people. In this study, the

researchers used Phenomenological method to treat the study. The researches will conduct

this study to know what are the possible effects of religion and what are the practices that

have been reshaped due to different religious diversity in the indigenous community, Isneg

Tribe of the municipality of Dumalneg, Ilocos Norte, Region I for the year 2023-202.

The participants of this study are mainly the Dumalneg Elders from the Isneg Tribe, in

reason that the elders have more knowledge about the teachings and practices of Isneg’s that

has been supersede by religion. The participants were chosen through Snowball Sampling

Procedure as a method of gathering information.

Definition of Terms

For better comprehensive, the researchers defined uncommon words or terms found in

the content of the study. The terms and their meaning are the following.

Reorganization. Refers to the reshaping of the customary beliefs, practices, and culture in

the Tribal community.

Isneg. The Indigenious inhabitance of the Dumalneg Ilocos Norte, pertaining to the Isneg

people of the tribe.

Customary Practices. This refers to traditional behaviors, rituals, or actions that are

commonly accepted within a culture or community.

Religious Influence. It is the impact of the religion beliefs, practice, and teachings on various

aspects of an individuals.
Extrinsic Influence. It refers to external factors or forces that come from outside a

particular system or context such as the rise of religion in the society.

Intrinsic Influence. It refers to internal factors or qualities inherent within a

particular system or context, shaping it from within, such as the religious practices

that supersede the cultural practices of the tribe.