[PDF] Religion And Aids In Africa eBook

Author : Hansjörg Dilger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317068203

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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 : Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199831556

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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 : Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199714606

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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 : Felicitas Becker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047442695

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This volume explores, through anthropological and historical case studies from different parts of Africa, 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.

Author : Isabel Apawo Phiri
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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The book has 3 parts: re-reading the Bible, challenging faith communities and practical resources for faith communities. It is the fruit of a conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians on "Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS: African Women Challenging Religion, Culture and Social Practices."

Author : Marian Burchardt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137477776

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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 : Azetsop, Jacquineau
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608336719

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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 : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317381599

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This book explores the nature, significance and consequences of the religious activism surrounding AIDS in Africa. While African religion was relatively marginal in inspiring or contributing to AIDS activism during the early days of the epidemic, this situation has changed dramatically. In order to account for these changes, contributors provide answers to pressing questions. How does the entrance of religion into public debates about AIDS affect policymaking and implementation, church-state relations, and religion itself? How do religious actors draw on and reconfigure forms of transnational connectivity? How do resource flows from development and humanitarian aid that religious actors may access then affect relationships of power and authority in African societies? How does religious mobilization on AIDS reflect contestation over identity, cultural membership, theology, political participation, and citizenship? Addressing these questions, the authors draw on social movement theories to explore the role of religious identities, action frames, political opportunity structures, and resource mobilization in African religions’ reaction to the AIDS epidemic. The book’s findings are rooted in fieldwork conducted in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Mozambique, among a variety of religious organizations. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Author : R. Gaie
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2007-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9966040412

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Ever since the publication of Placide Tempel's epoch-making work Bantu Philosophy, African philosophers have worked to dispel the myth that there is no metaphysics in Africa. In the East African context we remember the names of Joseph Nyasmi and Odera Oruka, and in the West African context, Pauline Hotoundji and Kwesi Wiredu have made monumental contributions to elucidate African metaphysics. This compendium, presented by a group of scholars from the University of Botswana, seeks to build bridges between the seemingly estranged disciplines of African metaphysics, existential philosophy, and economics in the contexts of HIV/AIDS.