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Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS (Hardcover)
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Drawing on a wide range of methodologies, this book documents a
diverse portfolio of religious responses to HIV and AIDS at the
local and global levels in sites from sub-Saharan Africa to New
York City. The volume goes beyond the psychology of religion, which
is often based on how religion is used to cope with illness. It
seeks to examine the role of religious institutions and cultures as
key players in civil society, and to examine not only psychological
factors, but social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of
religious responses to the AIDS epidemic. At times religious
movements have provided powerful forces for community mobilisation
in response to the social vulnerability, economic exclusion and
health problems associated with HIV. In other contexts, religious
cultures have reproduced values and practices that have seriously
impeded more effective approaches to mitigate the epidemic. By
highlighting these complex and sometimes contradictory social
processes, this book provides new insights into the potential for
religious institutions to address the HIV epidemic more
effectively. More broadly, it shows how research can be done on
religion in the area of global public health, showing how civil
society organizations shape opportunities for health promotion: a
crucial and new area of global public health research. This book
was originally published as a special issue of Global Public
Health.
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