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Religion has become deeply involved in HIV/AIDS treatment, care and
prevention, and is substantially influencing attitudes and
behaviour in the domains of sexuality, relationships and the body.
At the same time, AIDS as a disease, as a field of biomedicine, and
as a realm of international aid interventions is heavily affecting
socio-religious formations and developments in Africa. Religion and
AIDS are transforming African public and private domains together.
Yet, scant attention is paid to the ways in which this intertwined
engagement between the domains of religion and the domains of AIDS
prevention, care, and treatment in African societies become
increasingly linked to an outside world. This book seeks to address
the question why so much of the transnational religious engagement
with the disease has seemed to serve a conservative agenda. It is
unique in drawing attention to the transnationalisation of religion
and AIDS in Africa. The disciplinary scope for studying this
phenomenon is wide-ranging as it speaks to anthropological,
sociological, developmental, historical, and religious studies, and
global health perspectives on these issues. Introducing concepts
from the study of transnationalism into the study of religion and
AIDS and their mutual intertwinement, this book offers the various
fields which explore how religious ideologies and moralities have
been shaping the experience of AIDS in Africa a new set of
conceptual tools for analysis. The multi-disciplinary, empirical
chapters from a wide range of localities shows how African public
domains are being shaped by forces that are transnational, steered
by forceful religious and moral agendas, and often have substantial
international resources behind them. These are, so the authors
argue, the strings attached to the present-day transnational,
religious involvement with AIDS in Africa.
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