Spiritual Reports from Long-Term HIV Survivors

Reclaiming Meaning While Confronting Mortality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3597016
AutoresKyle Desrosiers, Kyle D Desrosiers (Baylor University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume11
Fascículo11
Páginas602
Data de publicação2020-11-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11110602
OpenAlexW3102949260
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas27

Reports from Long-term HIV Survivors: Reclaiming Meaning while Confronting Mortality presents research completed by Kyle Desrosiers in conjunction with the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. Applying lifespan theory to spiritual development, it discusses the narratives of four American long-term HIV survivors from Latter-day Saints, Roman Catholic (2), and Conservative Jewish backgrounds. The fifth profile is from a Protestant pastor with an HIV ministry in a rural area. These profiles are five selected from among 10 interviews with HIV-positive people and caregivers across America now archived by the author at Baylor University. Questions directing this research were: how does HIV status affect participants' relationship to their religious communities, identities, and spiritualties?; what narratives emerge from lifespan perspectives of HIV-positive and queer participants?; and what spiritual practices, mythos, and beliefs evolve/remain as a product of living at the margins of religion and society, alongside coping with a deadly global epidemic? This project reports narratives of change, continuity, and meaning-making to discuss how several gay/queer men from a range of ethnic and faith backgrounds have used spirituality and worldview to navigate life

Ethnic group · Faith · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Protestantism · Psychotherapist · Queer · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology