04204nam 22006614a 450 991081587200332120240506011900.01-282-60138-5978661260138590-474-4269-510.1163/ej.9789004164000.i-410(CKB)2670000000012684(EBL)489342(SSID)ssj0000334496(PQKBManifestationID)11297200(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334496(PQKBWorkID)10260076(PQKB)10248609(MiAaPQ)EBC489342(OCoLC)276274609(nllekb)BRILL9789047442691(Au-PeEL)EBL489342(CaPaEBR)ebr10372670(CaONFJC)MIL260138(OCoLC)704944048(dli)HEB30785(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000054(PPN)17454491X(EXLCZ)99267000000001268420081114d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAIDS and religious practice in Africa /edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler1st ed.Leiden ;Boston Brill20091 online resource (416 p.)Studies of religion in Africa,0169-9814 ;v. 36Description based upon print version of record.90-04-16400-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.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.Studies on religion in Africa ;36.AIDS (Disease)AfricaReligious aspectsAIDS (Disease)Religious aspects.362.196/97920096Becker Felicitas1971-1660427Geissler Wenzel803271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815872003321AIDS and religious practice in Africa4015624UNINA