Aids and Religious Practice in Africa (Studies of Religion in Africa)

"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."--BOOK JACKET 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. Edited By Felicitas Becker And P. Wenzel Geissler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. plugin-pdf_handler-1......Page 2 INTRODUCTION: SEARCHING FOR PATHWAYS IN A LANDSCAPE OF DEATH: RELIGION AND AIDS IN AFRICA......Page 8 NEW DEPARTURES IN CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS OF LONG STANDING......Page 34 CHRISTIAN SALVATION AND LUO TRADITION: ARGUMENTS OF FAITH IN A TIME OF DEATH IN WESTERN KENYA......Page 56 THE NEW WIVES OF CHRIST: PARADOXES AND POTENTIALS IN THE REMAKING OF WIDOW LIVES IN UGANDA......Page 92 CONVERGENCES AND CONTRASTS IN MUSLIMS’ RESPONSES......Page 124 COMPETING EXPLANATIONS AND TREATMENT CHOICES: MUSLIMS, AIDS AND ARVs IN TANZANIA*......Page 162 ‘MUSLIMS HAVE INSTRUCTIONS’ HIV/AIDS, MODERNITY AND ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN KISUMU, KENYA......Page 196 PENTECOSTAL CONGREGRATIONS BETWEEN FAITH HEALING AND CONDEMNATION......Page 228 HEALING THE WOUNDS OF MODERNITY: SALVATION, COMMUNITY AND CARE IN A NEO-PENTECOSTAL CHURCH IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA1......Page 262 GLOVES IN TIMES OF AIDS: PENTECOSTALISM, HAIR AND SOCIAL DISTANCING IN BOTSWANA......Page 290 ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT: FAILURES AND RESPONSES......Page 314 SUBJECTS OF COUNSELLING: RELIGION, HIV/AIDS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA......Page 340 THERAPEUTIC EVANGELISM—CONFESSIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, ANTIRETROVIRALS AND BIOSPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN WEST AFRIC......Page 366 CONCLUSION......Page 386 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 392 INDEX......Page 396 18......Page 412 The rise of occult powers, AIDS, and the Roman Catholic Church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend Salvation and tradition: configurations of faith in a time of death / 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 ARV in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker 'Muslims have instructions': HIV/AIDS and Islamic reformism in the context of 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 / Hansjorg 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. 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. This title examines the social production, and productivity, of AIDS, linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses