Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Fortress Academic
ISBN: 9781978713628
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Using material from fieldwork and engaging in dialogue with literature on religion and HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, this book reviews the responses of African Initiated Churches to the pandemic. The book describes how African Independent Churches have adopted different strategies to provide effective responses to the pandemic"--
African Initiated Churches Facing HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: Fortress Academic
ISBN: 9781978713628
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Using material from fieldwork and engaging in dialogue with literature on religion and HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, this book reviews the responses of African Initiated Churches to the pandemic. The book describes how African Independent Churches have adopted different strategies to provide effective responses to the pandemic"--
Publisher: Fortress Academic
ISBN: 9781978713628
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Using material from fieldwork and engaging in dialogue with literature on religion and HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, this book reviews the responses of African Initiated Churches to the pandemic. The book describes how African Independent Churches have adopted different strategies to provide effective responses to the pandemic"--
Religion and AIDS in Africa
Author: Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Religion and AIDS in Africa
Author: Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199714606
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199714606
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Justice Not Silence
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920689001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The editors of this volume highlight the fact that although the Church often stands up for other public issues such as human rights, democratic political rights, economic justice, etc., sexual and gender-based violence do not receive the attention they deserve. There are no theological or cultural arguments that can justify such a position. Sexual and gender-based violence are a scourge that defies our Christian understanding of human dignity ? and challenges the Church in all its formations to respond. ÿAlthough most of the case studies are from Zimbabwe, they challenge us regardless of which country we are living in ? or the tradition of our specific denomination.ÿ In the context of Southern Africa, where the HIV and AIDS burden is among the highest in the world, sexual and gender-based violence are a major contributor to the spread of the disease. This will only change if the Church challenges this practice as part of its educational and public work ? in theological institutions, in congregations, but also in its pastoral work within families.ÿ
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920689001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The editors of this volume highlight the fact that although the Church often stands up for other public issues such as human rights, democratic political rights, economic justice, etc., sexual and gender-based violence do not receive the attention they deserve. There are no theological or cultural arguments that can justify such a position. Sexual and gender-based violence are a scourge that defies our Christian understanding of human dignity ? and challenges the Church in all its formations to respond. ÿAlthough most of the case studies are from Zimbabwe, they challenge us regardless of which country we are living in ? or the tradition of our specific denomination.ÿ In the context of Southern Africa, where the HIV and AIDS burden is among the highest in the world, sexual and gender-based violence are a major contributor to the spread of the disease. This will only change if the Church challenges this practice as part of its educational and public work ? in theological institutions, in congregations, but also in its pastoral work within families.ÿ
Facing a Pandemic
Author: Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792821
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792821
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.
Multiplying in the Spirit
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
ISBN: 3863092546
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
ISBN: 3863092546
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Living with Hope
Author: Ezra Chitando
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782825415238
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Addressing the need for an in-depth understanding and analysis of how Churches in Africa are living with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, Ezra Chitando's book insists that the church must accompany people and communities living with HIV and AIDS on their journeys of faith. He argues that the church in Africa must be one with friendly feet, which ministers to every need, thus repenting its negative attitudes as well as the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. As it works with and among those living with HIV, it must also interrogate its theology, its attitude to sexuality and its gender insensitivity and awaken to the realisation that it must become an all-embracing community. Chitando insists that a church with friendly feet does not pose questions about the moral standing of those with whom it is journeying. African churches need friendly feet to journey with individuals and communities living with HIV and AIDS, warm hearts to demonstrate compassion and anointed hands to effect healing. Reflecting on these themes, Living with Hope is the first of two books.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782825415238
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Addressing the need for an in-depth understanding and analysis of how Churches in Africa are living with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, Ezra Chitando's book insists that the church must accompany people and communities living with HIV and AIDS on their journeys of faith. He argues that the church in Africa must be one with friendly feet, which ministers to every need, thus repenting its negative attitudes as well as the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. As it works with and among those living with HIV, it must also interrogate its theology, its attitude to sexuality and its gender insensitivity and awaken to the realisation that it must become an all-embracing community. Chitando insists that a church with friendly feet does not pose questions about the moral standing of those with whom it is journeying. African churches need friendly feet to journey with individuals and communities living with HIV and AIDS, warm hearts to demonstrate compassion and anointed hands to effect healing. Reflecting on these themes, Living with Hope is the first of two books.
One day this will all be over
Author: Ross Parsons
Publisher: Weaver Press
ISBN: 1779222017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their needs. His account of these experiences is presented as a rare blend of anthropological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the study of children, and he is candid about the close, even intimate, relationships that resulted: I have crossed the classical ethnographic and psychoanalytic boundary of the cool observer. The therapist, while still awkwardly present, has also become an advocate in pursuit of the ethnographic. The period of his research coincided with one of deep crisis in Zimbabwes economy: employment opportunities were few, public health and education services were in decay, and the prospects were grim for those on the margins of society. In the course of my fieldwork I have attended too many funerals. In the absence of state support, the poor look variously to international NGOs, and to the church. Parsons offers telling insights into the crossroads of donated pharmaceuticals and Christian faith, and is constantly alert to the place of traditional spirituality and ties of kinship.
Publisher: Weaver Press
ISBN: 1779222017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their needs. His account of these experiences is presented as a rare blend of anthropological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the study of children, and he is candid about the close, even intimate, relationships that resulted: I have crossed the classical ethnographic and psychoanalytic boundary of the cool observer. The therapist, while still awkwardly present, has also become an advocate in pursuit of the ethnographic. The period of his research coincided with one of deep crisis in Zimbabwes economy: employment opportunities were few, public health and education services were in decay, and the prospects were grim for those on the margins of society. In the course of my fieldwork I have attended too many funerals. In the absence of state support, the poor look variously to international NGOs, and to the church. Parsons offers telling insights into the crossroads of donated pharmaceuticals and Christian faith, and is constantly alert to the place of traditional spirituality and ties of kinship.
Community Action on HIV and AIDS
Author: Nicta Lubaale
Publisher: Damaris Publishing
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Developed by the Organization of African Instituted Churches, this book is designed to help church leaders deal with social, cultural and economic issues related to the HIV epidemic at community level. Covers topics such as the sexual abuse of children, domestic violence, widow inheritance and property grabbing by relatives.
Publisher: Damaris Publishing
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Developed by the Organization of African Instituted Churches, this book is designed to help church leaders deal with social, cultural and economic issues related to the HIV epidemic at community level. Covers topics such as the sexual abuse of children, domestic violence, widow inheritance and property grabbing by relatives.
The Church and AIDS in Africa
Author: Amy Stephenson Patterson
Publisher: Firstforumpress
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the role of the Christian church, broadly and diversely defined as both institutions and communities of believers (although the focus of the analysis is on institutional behaviors), in the politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The author creates a typology of church AIDS actions--no response; early, narrow response; early, broad response; late, narrow response; and late, broad response--and seeks explanations for where churches fall within this typology in terms of institutional resources, organizational structures, relations with the state, and global networks.
Publisher: Firstforumpress
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores the role of the Christian church, broadly and diversely defined as both institutions and communities of believers (although the focus of the analysis is on institutional behaviors), in the politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The author creates a typology of church AIDS actions--no response; early, narrow response; early, broad response; late, narrow response; and late, broad response--and seeks explanations for where churches fall within this typology in terms of institutional resources, organizational structures, relations with the state, and global networks.