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Author : Michael Czerny
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789966080370
Author : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781932792829
The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.
Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 2825415235
Addressing the need for an in-depth understanding and analysis of how Churches in Africa are living with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, Ezra Chitando's book insists that the church must accompany people and communities living with HIV and AIDS on their journeys of faith. He argues that the church in Africa must be one with friendly feet, which ministers to every need, thus repenting its negative attitudes as well as the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. As it works with and among those living with HIV, it must also interrogate its theology, its attitude to sexuality and its gender insensitivity and awaken to the realisation that it must become an all-embracing community. Chitando insists that a church with friendly feet does not pose questions about the moral standing of those with whom it is journeying. African churches need friendly feet to journey with individuals and communities living with HIV and AIDS, warm hearts to demonstrate compassion and anointed hands to effect healing. Reflecting on these themes, Living with Hope is the first of two books.
Author : Amy Stephenson Patterson
Publisher : Firstforumpress
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39076002964877
This book explores the role of the Christian church, broadly and diversely defined as both institutions and communities of believers (although the focus of the analysis is on institutional behaviors), in the politics of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The author creates a typology of church AIDS actions--no response; early, narrow response; early, broad response; late, narrow response; and late, broad response--and seeks explanations for where churches fall within this typology in terms of institutional resources, organizational structures, relations with the state, and global networks.
Author : Michael Czerny
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789966081872
The Catholic Church, from the beginning of AIDS in Africa, has been active in alleviation and treatment, in prevention, consolation and spreading hope. Now "to interpret the present time" is to consider this complex issue seriously in the light of our scriptures, faith, tradition and practice. That is what the essays in this volume strive to do. (back cover).
Author : Elias K Bongmba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481314661
Facing a Pandemic traces the history and spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in Africa and its impact on African society and public policy before considering new priorities needed to combat the pandemic. The central argument is that the theological motif of the image of God invites a prophetic critique of the social environment in which HIV/AIDS thrives and calls for a praxis of love and compassion.
Author : A. E. Orobator
Publisher : Paulines Publications Africa
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789966081032
Author : Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195335941
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
Author : Isabel Apawo Phiri,Bev Haddad,Madipoane Joyce Masenya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000100478027
The book has 3 parts: re-reading the Bible, challenging faith communities and practical resources for faith communities. It is the fruit of a conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians on "Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS: African Women Challenging Religion, Culture and Social Practices."
Author : Harold G Koenig,Carole B Weatherford,Ronald J Weatherford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135410346
Examining the black church’s response to AIDS, Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door: AIDS and the African-American Church analyzes sexual ethics and homophobia in the black church to provide pastors, social workers, and health professionals with intervention strategies for parishioners or members of the community who have AIDS. By discussing the church’s historic and successful activism and its relationship to the community, along with AIDS statistics, relevant theologies, and other AIDS ministries, this book suggests the benefits of increased church involvement versus other agencies or organizations. Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door will help you develop prevention education and pastoral care programs that will alert individuals to the risks of AIDS and will offer people with AIDS the comfort and assistance they need in coping with the disease. Through the voices of leading clergy, AIDS advocates, and people living with AIDS (PLWAs), this book calls on the African-American church to become more involved in helping communities deal with the disease. Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door offers you ideas on how to improve the lives of individuals with AIDS through the church, including: welcoming PLWAs into the church through announcements by local media, church newsletters, and Sunday bulletins offering AIDS support groups at the church or loaning office space, equipment, or clerical assistance to AIDS organizations recognizing the power of intercessory prayer for PLWAs caring for PLWAs by delivering meals to their homes, preparing meals at the church, and developing a transportation network that will take parishioners to doctor appointments, church, or on recreational outings preparing meals, running errands, housekeeping, handling paperwork, negotiating legal issues, and offering friendship-- possible components of volunteer “buddy programs” for homebound PLWAs training pastors, clergy, and Sunday school teachers to educate ministries on AIDS in the African- American community, sexual intimacy, intravenous drug use and needle sharing, monogamy, community resources, and condom use Since some clergy still believe that AIDS is a “gay” disease, Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door discusses the issue of homosexuality within the church. By analyzing passages from the Bible, the authors refute the belief that homosexuals were neglected by God and undeserving of care and love. This belief, according to the authors, inhibits some churches and individuals from discussing HIV/AIDS because of fear they would also be acknowledging homosexuality. Highlighting AIDS ministries throughout the United States, Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door encourages the African-American church to confront the issue of AIDS and understand that the disease can affect anyone. This book will give you the necessary strategies for starting and implementing AIDS ministries and intervention programs that will educate and support your community.
Author : Peter Mageto
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467811972
Rarely does a book come along with a renewed understanding on the way certain issues are treated especially the Churchs response to HIV/AIDS. Other books talk about the social, economic issues in relation to HIV/AIDS, but this book goes further to show the theological basis of the churchs response. With evidence from the history of the main line churches, Mageto exposes the suppressed views within the mission churches on the HIV/AIDS. The book opens up yet another way of understanding the churchs response to HIV/AIDS so far and shows new ways of looking at the pandemic in particular those who are infected and affected.
Author : Felicitas Becker,P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004164000
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 peoplea (TM)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.
Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : OCLC:1285647940
Author : Vhumani Magezi
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920109912
This publication carefully describes the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how it is understood in some African contexts, which hampers prevention initiatives. It also delineates the complex nature of the poverty and HIV/AIDS interplay. To address the situation, a family systems practical ecclesiological theology and approach to HIV/AIDS ministry, and a pastoral counselling approach that derives from and is sensitive to the African context, are proposed.
Author : Jenny Trinitapoli,Alexander Weinreb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199831555
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.