Divine targets

This study explored the focus on youth in Catholic and Evangelical Pentecostal discussions about and responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil. Key informant, oral history and in-depth interviews revealed a disconnect between young people's views of themselves as leaders in their religious institutions' responses to HIV and other social problems, and adult religious leaders' views of young people as vulnerable and in need of being 'saved'. Religious leaders presented young people as institutional commodities, emphasizing their symbolic value as signs of the health and future of their churches. We explore the unofficial exchange between religious institutions and young people, who benefited from the leadership opportunities and communities provided by their churches and youth groups. We discuss the political economy of youth in religious institutions' responses to HIV and AIDS within the context of Brazil's high levels of religious mobility as well as the broader, global commodification of spirituality and religion

Christianity · Commodification · Focus group · Geography · Political science · Politics · Religious organization · Sociology · Spirituality · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Anthropology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Religious studies

• Discursos sobre sexualidade em um Centro de Testagem e Aconselhamento (CTA)

  Open Access•Sandra Monteiro, Simone Souza Monteiro et al.•Ciência & Saúde Coletiva•2014

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• Ethnography unbound

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• A Review of Faith-Based HIV Prevention Programs

  Open Access•Shelley A Francis, Joan Liverpool•Journal of Religion and Health•2009

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• Structural factors associated with an increased risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infection transmission among street-involved youth

  Open Access•Brandon D L Marshall, Brandon DL Marshall et al.•BMC Public Health•2009

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• Ambivalence, silence and gender differences in church leaders’ HIV-prevention messages to young people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  Elisabet Eriksson, Gunilla Lindmark et al.•Culture Health & Sexuality•2010

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• Homophobia, hypermasculinity and the US black church

  Elijah G Ward•Culture Health & Sexuality•2005

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• Youth, sin and sex in Nigeria

  Daniel Jordan Smith•Culture Health & Sexuality•2004

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• Senegalese religious leaders’ perceptions of HIV/Aids and implications for challenging stigma and discrimination

  David A Ansari, Allyn Gaestel•Culture Health & Sexuality•2010

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• The contextual determinants of sexually transmissible infections among street‐involved youth in North America

  Brandon D L Marshall•Culture Health & Sexuality•2008

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• Local impacts of religious discourses on rights to express same-sex sexual desires in Peri-Urban Rio de Janeiro

  J Garcia, Miguel Muñoz Laboy et al.•Sexuality Research and Social…•2009

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• Promises and Challenges of Faith-Based Aids Care and Support in Mozambique

  Victor Agadjanian, Soma Sen•American Journal of Public Health•2007

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• A Critical Analysis of the Brazilian Response to HIV/Aids

  Alan Berkman, Jonathan Garcia et al.•American Journal of Public Health•2005

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• Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

  John Comaroff, John L Comaroff et al.•Millennial Capitalism and the…•2001

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• The role of religion in HIV-positive women's disclosure experiences and coping strategies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

  Open Access•Suzanne Maman, Rebecca Cathcart et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2009

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• Fecundidade na adolescência e religião em Belo Horizonte

  Open Access•Paula Miranda-Ribeiro, Paula Miranda Ribeiro et al.•Revista Brasileira de Estudos de…•2009

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