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Title

Abundant life : the churches and sexuality / edited by Ezra Chitando and Nyambura Njoroge.

Publication

• Geneva, Switzerland : World Council of Churches Publications, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Chitando, Ezra
• Njoroge, Nyambura J.

Description

viii, 171 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Often perceived as conservative and rigid, Christian churches have oftentimes been barriers to people's claiming their sexuality. Yet, in their response to the crisis posed by AIDS and HIV, churches have also often challenged harmful cultural practices and surmounted that stereotype. Focusing on sexual and reproductive health rights, especially in African settings, this book seeks to identify and cultivate the positive - indeed liberating - role that churches must play. Bringing the power of religion to bear on the social and religious attitudes that lead to silence, stigma, repression, and even gender violence, the book critically appraises and reappropriates received biblical, pastoral, and theological sources to offer a new vision to those persons most often denied their rights, including women, the young, sexual minorities, and the disabled. The Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA) series has proven to be a theological and pastoral wellspring for churches in Africa and beyond. This volume will enlighten and inform church leaders and pastoral caregivers everywhere on how the churches can enable all people to enjoy abundant life" --

Series Statement

EHAIA series

Uniform Title

EHAIA series.

Subject

• Sex > Christianity
• Reproductive rights > Christianity
• Christianity > Africa
• Sexualidad > Cristianismo
• Derechos sexuales y reproductivos > Aspectos religiosos > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Equipping the future: (re)positioning youth-centred church programmes for SRHR / Lilly Phiri and Sakfa Francis John -- 2. The "connected church": using new media to communicate sexuality issues with young people / Bongi Moyo -- 3. Women's sexuality: a challenge to the church / Kuzipa Nalwamba -- 4. Churches and the sexuality of older women / Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga -- 5. Churches, women with disability, and sexuality / Jessie Fubara-Manuel -- 6. African women's voices on HIV, sexual and reproductive health rights, and sexual and gender-based violence / Sophia Chirongoma -- 7. Sexual and reproductive agency in African initiated churches: problems and prospects for sexual and reproductive rights / Maxwell Mukova and Fainos Mangena -- 8. Masturbation: sexual perversion or an act of sexual freedom? an analysis on the act in relation to the story of Onan (Genesis 38: 1-10) / Canisius Mwandayi -- 9. The role of men in women's sexual and reproductive health and rights: toward a programmatic model / Lilian C. Siwila -- 10. Called to be courageous: churches and sexual minorities / Ayoko Bahun Wilson and Godson Lawson.

ISBN

• 9782825416747
• 2825416746

LCCN

^^2015473779

OCLC

934406664

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library