Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19901974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P W Geissler (0000-0003-4724-5593, Max Planck Society) |
| Editors | Felicitas Becker, Wenzel Geissler |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 407 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | AIDS and religious practice in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/ej.9789004164000.i-410 |
| OpenAlex | W616986869 |
| Open Library | OL29585809M |
| ISBN | 9789004164000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
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
Culmination · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome · Africa · AIDS (Disease) · Aids (disease), religious aspects · Medicine · Medicine, religious aspects · Religion and Medicine · Religious aspects
Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Considering the this-worldly religious focus of the African traditional worldview as found in South Africa
I am also a human being!' Antiretroviral treatment in local moral worlds
The Islamification of antiretroviral therapy
I let others speak about condoms
The struggle for identity among Black professional women who are widowed
Perceptions of South African Emerging Adult FET College Students on Sexual Practices in Relation to Religion
In Search of Gender Justice
Pentecostalism and Post-Development
Ironies of Subordination
Pastoral power in HIV prevention
Introduction to Special Issue
Love and Sex in Islamic Africa
Islam, HIV/Aids and activism
Fighting down the scourge, building up the church
Introduction—The redemptive moment
Christian identity and men's attitudes to antiretroviral therapy in Zambia
Emergent HIV technology
Counselling and Pentecostal modalities of social engineering of relationships in Botswana
Transparent sexualities’
Breaking the silence on abortion
Religion and the ‘Secular shadow’
God’s Rage
I Told You the Invisible Can Kill You
Life With Hiv
Young People Living with HIV in Zimbabwe Use the Conventional, Religious, and Traditional Health Systems in Parallel
We are saving the township
HIV/Aids and religion in sub-Saharan Africa
The Anthropology of Life After Aids
Redeeming Lost Mothers
Obscuring and Revealing
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |