Aids and Religious Practice in Africa
- Editors Felicitas Becker; Wenzel Geissler
- Subjects: Religious Studies
- Keywords: medicine; ritual; Africa; Pentecostalism; Christianity; Islam; AIDS; indigenous; health
- Publication Year : 2009
- DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004164000.i-410
- E - ISBN : 9789047442691
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2009
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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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Preliminary Materials
- pp. i–vi
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Introduction: Searching for pathways in a landscape of death: Religion and aids in Africa
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The rise of occult powers, aids and the roman catholic church in western Uganda
- pp. 27–48 (22)
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Christian salvation and Luo tradition: Arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya
- pp. 49–84 (36)
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The new wives of Christ: Paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda
- pp. 85–116 (32)
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Aids and the power of God: Narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar
- pp. 117–154 (38)
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Competing explanations and treatment choices: Muslims, Aids and arvs in Tanzania
- pp. 155–188 (34)
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‘Muslims have instructions’ Hiv/Aids, modernity and islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya
- pp. 189–220 (32)
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‘Keeping up appearances’: Sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda
- pp. 221–254 (34)
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Healing the wounds of modernity: Salvation, community and care in a neo-pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
- pp. 255–282 (28)
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Gloves in times of aids: Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana
- pp. 283–306 (24)
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Leprosy of a deadlier kind: Christian conceptions of aids in the south african Lowveld
- pp. 307–332 (26)
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Subjects of counselling: Religion, Hiv/Aids and the management of everyday life in South Africa
- pp. 333–358 (26)
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Therapeutic evangelism—Confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against Aids in West Africa
- pp. 359–378 (20)
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Conclusion
- pp. 379–384 (6)
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Notes on contributors
- pp. 385–388 (4)
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Studies of religion in Africa
- pp. 405–410 (6)
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