AIDS and the African Church

AIDS and the African Church PDF Author: Michael Czerny
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN: 9966080376
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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AIDS and the African Church

AIDS and the African Church PDF Author: Michael Czerny
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN: 9966080376
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa

Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa PDF Author: Hansjörg Dilger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317068203
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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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.

Religion and AIDS in Africa

Religion and AIDS in Africa PDF Author: Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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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.

Religion and AIDS in Africa

Religion and AIDS in Africa PDF Author: Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199714606
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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.

The Church and AIDS in Africa

The Church and AIDS in Africa PDF Author: Amy Stephenson Patterson
Publisher: Firstforumpress
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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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.

Aids and Religious Practice in Africa

Aids and Religious Practice in Africa PDF Author: Felicitas Becker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442695
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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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.

Aids in Africa

Aids in Africa PDF Author: Michael Czerny
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
ISBN: 9966081879
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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The Catholic Church, from the beginning of AIDS in Africa, has been active in alleviation and treatment, in prevention, consolation and spreading hope. Now "to interpret the present time" is to consider this complex issue seriously in the light of our scriptures, faith, tradition and practice. That is what the essays in this volume strive to do. (back cover).

HIV & AIDS In Africa

HIV & AIDS In Africa PDF Author: Azetsop, Jacquineau
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336719
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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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.

African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities

African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities PDF Author: Isabel Apawo Phiri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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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."

When God Stood Up

When God Stood Up PDF Author: James Cantelon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470739185
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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THE VICTIMS OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC IN AFRICA ARE FAR MORE NUMEROUS THAN THE DEAD AND DYING. MILLIONS OF ORPHANS AND WIDOWS ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE IN EXTREME POVERTY AND SOCIAL OPRESSION. JAMES CANTELON, A CANADIAN PASTOR, HAS CHALLENGED CHURCHES IN AFRICA-AND IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES-TO UNITE IN A COMMON CAUSE TO BRING RELIEF TO SUFFERING OF INTOLERABLE MAGNITUDE. When God Stood Up is the story of a remarkable journey that affirms God's presence in the most ravaged places on Earth. Millions of our fellow human beings are depending on just to be "God's hand extended." Read about their stories and be humbled. "The book puts HIV/AIDS into terrifying perspective. Jim and Kathy Cantelon are the face of God's love to so many who are so desperate." --Deborah Grey, MP (ret'd). "As Jim narrates his accelerated response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, it reminds one of the image G.K. Chesterton captured of St. Francis: always running.' Within a matter of weeks, the author catapults out of Vancouver to the Durban colloquium, to hospitals and church events across the sub-Sahara-you sometimes look for a page to catch your breath! Come to think of it, with the awesome destruction of human life described here, what could be mode appropriate? When God Stood Up carries a sense of that which it issues a call for: breathless haste." --John & Ruth Kerr, Trans-Africa Theological College, Kitwe, Zambia "Posturing God as standing up sends readers a signal: beware. Coddled for years by an image of a benign and permissive deity, Cantelon gives a yank on our leash of grace. Human tragedy, he reminds us, isn't just unfortunate-it's the stuff of life that strikes at the very heart of faith, a fait he asserts that should neither be smug nor comfortable. This God of justice makes it clear that those who call themselves by his name are to do no less than embrace justice." --Brian Stiller, President, Tyndale University & Seminary, Toronto "This is more than the story of the calling of a man to a god-sized mission. It is an informative, unfolding drama of perhaps the most critical issue of our time-AIDS in Africa. As Jim has cast and recast his vision, people all over the world have been caught and reeled in to unexpected roles, in response to the pandemic. My husband and I are in that number. Be warned as you read, you too may be stirred to action!" --Moira Brown, Co-host, 100 Huntley Street, CTS-TV