Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
Series: Studies of Religion in Africa; 36;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 23 February 2009
- ISBN 9789004164000
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages407 pages
- Size 240x160 mm
- Weight 862 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume explores, through anthropological and historical case studies from different parts of Africa, 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.
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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.
"Primarily anthropological in epistemology and ethnographic in methodology, the collection addresses a long-standing gap and reflects the rising interest in religion and HIV/AIDS."
Robin Root, City University of New York, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 41
"The essays in this volume demonstrate again that in contexts where state response has been anything but bold and aggressive, religious communities have responded to AIDS in light of their religious commitments. The strength of this book lies in the emphasis on gender issues and female sexuality."
Elias Bongmba, Rice University, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37, No.1
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This volume explores, through anthropological and historical case studies from different parts of Africa, 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.
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