AIDS and religious practice in Africa
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004164000 |
| Open Library | OL18352643W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2009 - 2009 |
| Language | EN |
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 people’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
Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
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). Ins…
Subjects of counselling
The aim of this chapter is to tease out the elective affinities and to thereby capture how religious organisations contribute to the re-shaping of concepts of responsible selfhood and counselled subjectivity. It argues that AIDS counselling is fundamentally concerned with producing, inculcating and disseminating new notions of moral responsibility and that its promotion by religious organisations is a response to the shortcomings of governmental …
Therapeutic evangelism—Confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against Aids in West Africa
Author: Nguyen, Vinh-Kim; Genre: Book Chapter; Issued: 2009; Keywords: AIDS (Disease) Africa Religious aspects.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Africa.; Religion and Medicine Africa.; Title: Therapeutic evangelism: confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa
Aids and the power of God
Discourses on AIDS in Zanzibar are embedded in a cultural logic associated with Islam and shaped by the islands long problematic relationship with the mainland. This chapter analyses how people struggle to translate such discourses into local practice in an effort to make sense of and contain the epidemic, and how AIDS has been used by religious groups in a political discourse opposing government policies that are perceived as having tolerated mo…
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Subjects of counselling
The aim of this chapter is to tease out the elective affinities and to thereby capture how religious organisations contribute to the re-shaping of concepts of responsible selfhood and counselled subjectivity. It argues that AIDS counselling is fundamentally concerned with producing, inculcating and disseminating new notions of moral responsibility and that its promotion by religious organisations is a response to the shortcomings of governmental …
Therapeutic evangelism—Confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against Aids in West Africa
Author: Nguyen, Vinh-Kim; Genre: Book Chapter; Issued: 2009; Keywords: AIDS (Disease) Africa Religious aspects.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Africa.; Religion and Medicine Africa.; Title: Therapeutic evangelism: confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa
Aids and the power of God
Discourses on AIDS in Zanzibar are embedded in a cultural logic associated with Islam and shaped by the islands long problematic relationship with the mainland. This chapter analyses how people struggle to translate such discourses into local practice in an effort to make sense of and contain the epidemic, and how AIDS has been used by religious groups in a political discourse opposing government policies that are perceived as having tolerated mo…
Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
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). Ins…