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Author: Hansjörg Dilger Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317068203 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.
Author: Hansjörg Dilger Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317068203 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.
Author: Felicitas Becker Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004164006 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display peoplea (TM)s resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.
Author: Jenny Trinitapoli Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199714606 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 296
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.
Author: Marian Burchardt Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9781137477767 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Publisher: World Health Organization ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
While there is a general acknowledgement within the church itself that the Church was initially slow to respond to the magnitude of the problem of HIV and AIDS, during the recent past, as the effects of HIV and AIDS within the congregations and communities of the church have become progressively more evident, the Catholic Church has emerged as an increasingly central role-player in a range of initiatives to combat the pandemic. This publication describes the work of the 'Choose to Care' initiative and the way it has been successfully scaled-up through the diocesan and parish network so that programmes are formed by local needs but work with common guidelines and can draw on central support.
Author: Azetsop, Jacquineau Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 1608336719 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 424
Book Description
A comprehensive look at the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, this volume features contributions from noted scholars from across the continent and beyond, providing badly needed social analysis and theological reflection from an African perspective.
Author: Marian Burchardt Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137477776 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.
Author: Hansjörg Dilger
Author: Hansjörg Dilger
Author: Rijk van Dijk
Author: Felicitas Becker
Author: Jenny Trinitapoli
Author: Marian Burchardt
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Author: Azetsop, Jacquineau
Author: Marian Burchardt
Author: Teresia M. Hinga
Author: Marian Burchardt