Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1
From the introduction by Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, Rijk van Dijk:
The purpose of this special issue is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapidly expanding Christian engagement with AIDS and the questions it raises. These questions can be grouped into three main themes: first, those concerning the ways people are dealing with illness and death, treatment and care for the sick, and questions of morality, kinship, gender relations, and sexuality; second, those concerning the place of religion in the public sphere, in relation to civil society and government, development, and public health; third, those concerning transformations within Christian practices and worldviews in Africa. This special issue explores not only some diverse responses of African churches to AIDS, but also the place of Christianity in (inter)national AIDS programs and initiatives, and the Christianization of public discourse and debate about AIDS and its effects on other institutions, practices, and debates in African societies experiencing the AIDS epidemic.
This special issue thus offers recent research and timely reflections on the interrelationships of Christianity, AIDS, and society in African countries. As the studies presented here encompass East and Southern Africa (specifically, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), this collection does not claim to present an overview of research in the whole continent, nor of the relations between Christianity and AIDS in Africa today; rather, it offers insights into the sometimes surprising relationships between AIDS and Christianity at particular moments and places over the last ten years.
Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1
Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa
Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, 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
BOOK REVIEWS
The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. Mueni wa Muiu
E. Ike Udogu
Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960–1974. Messay Kebede
Christopher R. Green
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa. Dambisa Moyo
Ama Biney
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