BAHÁNDÌANThe official Institutional Repository of Central Philippine University

BAHÁNDÌAN is the institutional repository of the Central Philippine University for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students.

BAHÁNDÌAN is a university repository providing access to the publication output of the Central Philippine University and its affiliates. Access is generally unrestricted, in compliance with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting, which makes such archives interoperable and cross-searchable.

BAHÁNDÌAN is a Hiligaynon term for a treasure chest (Uy-Griño, 2005). This institutional repository symbolizes a trove of valuable scholarly works of the institution. This digital repository is established to provide open, online access to the University's research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education.

Uy-Griño, E. (2005). Diksyonaryo: Hiligaynon-English/ English-Hiligaynon. Iloilo City, Philippines: Central Philippine University

This repository is managed by the Henry Luce III Library of the University.

Communities in BAHÁNDÌAN

Select a community to browse its collections.

Recently Added

  • Harnessing social media for religious peacebuilding: Faith in the digital age 

    Jalando-on, Francis Neil G. (Graduate Program of Pontianak Institute of Islamic Studies, 2025-06-01)
    This study explores social media’s potential as a tool for religious peacebuilding, focusing on its capacity to foster harmony through faith-based values in a digitally connected world. With 5.24 billion users globally and ...

  • From ABCUSA to CPBC: A historical analysis of Baptist local church autonomy 

    Jalando-on, Francis Neil G. (VMC Analytiks Multidisciplinary Journal News Publishing Services, 2026-01)
    This paper investigates how the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC) can draw valuable lessons from the American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) in applying the principle of local church autonomy. The concept of ...

  • Study for ecumenical interpretation on Dalit struggle and theology 

    Hwang, Nam duk (The South East Asia Graduate School of Theology, 2003-01)
    Like the history of the christian world, the history of India stretches over a period of almost 2000 years. St. Thomas was the first of Jesus' disciples to arrive in India, and he evangelized the Gospel in Kelara State and ...

  • Ministry to the Ao youth of Nagaland, pastoral care paradigms 

    Longkumer, Awala (South East Asia Graduate School of Theology, 1998-05)
    The purpose of this thesis is to develop a pastoral care that would seek to empower young people in the changing context of the Ao community. Nagas are going through a period of transition and paradigm shifts which affect ...

  • A viable multicultural approach to pastoral counseling for the Mangyans refugees from Mindoro, Philippines 

    McDivith, Patrick R. (Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology, 2006-03)
    A Multicultural Approach in Pastoral Counseling the Internal Refugees has a general objective to develop a multicultural counseling approach in pastoral care, based on experiences of the Helpee, the Mangyan national minority ...

View more