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Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa : saving souls, prolonging lives

Title
Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa : saving souls, prolonging lives / edited by Rijk van Dijk, African Studies Centre, Holland, Hansjörg Dilger, Freie Universiẗät Berlin, Germany, Marian Burchardt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religions and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and Thera Rasing, University of Lusaka (UNILUS), Zambia.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey, UK, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
  • Dilger, Hansjörg
  • Burchardt, Marian
  • Rasing, Thera
Description
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the AIDS epidemic.
Subject
  • AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Africa
  • AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > drug therapy
  • HIV Infections > drug therapy
  • Religion and Medicine
Note
  • Some chapters were first presented at a 2009 international symposium in Lusaka, Gambia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Religion and AIDS treatment in Africa: the redemptive moment / Hansjörg Dilger, Marian Burchardt and Rijk van Dijk -- Part 1: Agency, subjectivity, and authority -- Fashioning selves and fashioning styles: negotiating the personal and the rhetorical in the experiences of African recipients of ARV treatment / Felicitas Becker -- The logic of therapeutic habitus: culture, religion and biomedical AIDS treatment sin South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- 'A blessing in disguise': the art of surviving HIV/AIDS as a member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa / Bjarke Oxlund -- 'God has again remembered us!': Christian identity and men's attitudes to antiretroviral therapy in Zambia / Anthony Simpson -- Part 2: Contesting therapeutic domains and practices -- Prophetic medicine, antiretrovirals, and the therapeutic economy of HIV in Northern Nigeria / Jack Ume Tocco -- 'Silent nights, anointing days': post-HIV test religious experiences in Ghana / Benjamin Kobina Kwansa -- The blood of Jesus and CD4 counts: dreaming, developing and navigating therapeutic options for curing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania / Dominik Mattes -- Part 3: Emergent organizational forms in time of art -- Societal dynamics, state relations, and international connections: influences on Ghanaian and Zambian church mobilization in AIDS treatment / Amy S. Patterson -- The role of religious institutions in the district-level governance of anti-retroviral treatment in Western Uganda / A.M.J. Leusenkamp -- Negotiating holistic care with the 'rules' of ARV treatment in a Catholic community-based organization in Kampala / Louise Mubanda Rasmussen -- Notions of efficacy around a chinese medicinal plant: artemisia annua -- an innovative AIDS therapy in Tanzania / Caroline Meier zu Biesen.
Call Number
Sc E 16-603
ISBN
  • 9781409456698
  • 1409456692
  • 9781472428400 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472428417 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014000528
OCLC
871200208
Title
Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa : saving souls, prolonging lives / edited by Rijk van Dijk, African Studies Centre, Holland, Hansjörg Dilger, Freie Universiẗät Berlin, Germany, Marian Burchardt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religions and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and Thera Rasing, University of Lusaka (UNILUS), Zambia.
Publisher
Farnham, Surrey, UK, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Dijk, Rijk van, 1959- editor.
Dilger, Hansjörg, editor.
Burchardt, Marian, editor.
Rasing, Thera, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-603
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