HIV/Aids Support and African Pentecostalism

The Case of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4227633
AutoresAfe Adogame (0000-0001-9277-8853, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas475-484
Fecha de publicación2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105307076234
PMID17439997
OpenAlexW2025891438
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas41
Referencias citadas10

International and African discourses on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and intervention neglect the role of religion and religious organizations. Social science perspectives in tackling health and disease neglect religious doctrines and faith central to worldviews and praxis of religious groups. Both aspects are important for religious groups and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. Informed by a religious studies paradigm and through the religious ethnography of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Nigeria and the Diaspora, this article demonstrates mechanisms employed by African Pentecostals to combat the epidemic and provide support for infected members. The RCCG conceptualization of disease and healing is central to understanding responses and measures in combating HIV/AIDS

Christianity · Conceptualization · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Diaspora · Disease · Ethnography · Faith · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Neglect · Pandemic · Psychiatry · Sociology · Theology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Social Psychology