Reynaldo Ileto

Knowledge and Pacification: On the U.S. Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History. (2017). Ateneo de Manila University Press.

In 2003, Ileto received a Fukuoka academic prize for his scholarship.

Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and Historiography. (1998). Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Ileto is an honorary professor at the Australian National University and currently lectures at the Nanyang Technological University and the University of the Philippines. Ileto finished his undergraduate degree at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University and received his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History at Cornell University in 1975.

Reynaldo "Rey" Clemeña Ileto (born October 3, 1946) is a Filipino historian known for his seminal work Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910 first published in 1979. Ileto specializes in Asian history, religion and society, postcolonial studies, and the government and politics of Asia and the Pacific. He is known for his interdisciplinary approach combining history, literature, anthropology, cultural studies, and politics.

In this work, Ileto explores the possibility of understanding the 1896 Philippine Revolution and its peasant following, and subsequently the various popular movements that emerged, through the pasyón, a widely popular religious document narrating in verse Christ's suffering and redemption. According to Ileto, the document's structure and content [i.e., a pattern of suffering and sacrifice ending in Christ's resurrection, from kadiliman (darkness) towards liwanag (light), from bayang sawi (forsaken land) towards a lost Eden] may have shaped how the common tao understood the Revolution—in effect, providing the Christianized peoples a "language for articulating its own values, ideals, and hopes of liberation." Put differently, Pasyon suggests that the Christian religion, once an instrument of the Spanish colonizer in the pacification of the islands became the means (through the syncretic and indigenous pasyon) towards the emancipation of the native people.

The book explores the cases of Hermano Pule and the Cofradía de San José (Confraternity of St. Joseph), a millenarian peasant movement in Luzon; revolutionary leader Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan in 1896 (wherein which the leaders of the Katipunan, Ileto argues, may have used a pasyon rhetoric to attract followers to the nascent secret society); Emilio Aguinaldo's elite-led Republican revolution; Macario Sakay's Tagalog Republic and continued resistance to "benevolent assimilation"; and later peasant leader Felipe Salvador and the Santa Iglesia struggle in the early years of American occupation.

Maguindanao, 1860–1888: The Career of Datu Utto of Buayan. (1971). Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Series No. 82.

Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910. (1979). Ateneo de Manila University Press.