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This book explores the nature, significance and consequences of the
religious activism surrounding AIDS in Africa. While African
religion was relatively marginal in inspiring or contributing to
AIDS activism during the early days of the epidemic, this situation
has changed dramatically. In order to account for these changes,
contributors provide answers to pressing questions. How does the
entrance of religion into public debates about AIDS affect
policymaking and implementation, church-state relations, and
religion itself? How do religious actors draw on and reconfigure
forms of transnational connectivity? How do resource flows from
development and humanitarian aid that religious actors may access
then affect relationships of power and authority in African
societies? How does religious mobilization on AIDS reflect
contestation over identity, cultural membership, theology,
political participation, and citizenship? Addressing these
questions, the authors draw on social movement theories to explore
the role of religious identities, action frames, political
opportunity structures, and resource mobilization in African
religions' reaction to the AIDS epidemic. The book's findings are
rooted in fieldwork conducted in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Mozambique, among a variety of religious
organizations. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
This book explores the nature, significance and consequences of the
religious activism surrounding AIDS in Africa. While African
religion was relatively marginal in inspiring or contributing to
AIDS activism during the early days of the epidemic, this situation
has changed dramatically. In order to account for these changes,
contributors provide answers to pressing questions. How does the
entrance of religion into public debates about AIDS affect
policymaking and implementation, church-state relations, and
religion itself? How do religious actors draw on and reconfigure
forms of transnational connectivity? How do resource flows from
development and humanitarian aid that religious actors may access
then affect relationships of power and authority in African
societies? How does religious mobilization on AIDS reflect
contestation over identity, cultural membership, theology,
political participation, and citizenship? Addressing these
questions, the authors draw on social movement theories to explore
the role of religious identities, action frames, political
opportunity structures, and resource mobilization in African
religions' reaction to the AIDS epidemic. The book's findings are
rooted in fieldwork conducted in Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Mozambique, among a variety of religious
organizations. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
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