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Title:Special issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa
Editors:Prince, RuthISNI
Denis, PhilippeISNI
Dijk, Rijk vanISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Africa Today (ISSN 1527-1978)
Volume:56
Issue:1
Pages:124
Language:English
Geographic terms:Botswana
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Subjects:AIDS
Christianity
Pentecostalism
conference papers (form)
2007
2008
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/toc/at.56.1.html
Abstract:This special issue, which is the result of workshops held in Leiden (2007) and Copenhagen (2008), explores the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential actors in the engagement with HIV/AIDS in some African countries. The issue examines the diverse responses of African churches to AIDS, the role of Christianity in (inter)national AIDS programmes, and the Christianization of public discourse on HIV/AIDS. Contributions: Introduction to special issue: engaging Christianities: negotiating HIV/AIDS, health, and social relations in East and Southern Africa (Ruth Prince with Philippe Denis and Rijk van Dijk); Faith and the intersubjectivity of care in Botswana (Frederick Klaits); The 'failures of culture': Christianity, kinship, and moral discourses about orphans during Botswana's AIDS crisis (Bianca Dahl); 'Keep holy distance and abstain till he comes': interrogating a Pentecostal Church's engagements with HIV/AIDS and the youth in Kenya (Damaris Seleina Parsitau); HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal churches, and the 'Joseph generation' in Uganda (Alessandro Gusman); Doing better? Religion, the virtue-ethics of development, and the fragmentation of health politics in Tanzania (Hansjörg Dilger). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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