The Faith Sector And Hiv Aids In Botswana

Author : Lovemore Togarasei
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443827657
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana written by Lovemore Togarasei and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of chapters by seasoned scholars of religion covering the role played by various religions at home in Botswana in the struggle against HIV and AIDS. The book is a direct result of field research projects conducted by the authors on the role of religion in a country that once ranked as the worst affected by HIV and AIDS in the world. It comprises of twelve chapters that are divided into four parts. The first part, comprising of three chapters, provides a background of the faith sector in Botswana. Part II of the book focuses on the Christian religion and comprises of four chapters. Part III comprises of three chapters discussing other religious groups apart from Christianity. Part IV addresses the role of culture and religion in HIV and AIDS response in Botswana. With several attempts to mainstream HIV and AIDS in education both in schools and in tertiary institutions, the book serves both the academic and research community at national and international levels. It does not serve only those studying religion, but all who address issues of HIV and AIDS from whatever field of study.

Author : Kipton E. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443837253
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Discourses written by Kipton E. Jensen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animated by the belief that public health programs in Botswana, or other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, would be more effective if those who designed and implemented them possessed a better understanding of existing ethno-medical as well as religious beliefs and cultural practices, Parallel Discourses provides a revised topology of religious identity in Botswana and then shows why it is important to disaggregate or otherwise distinguish between diverse faith-based communities – from traditional African religions and African Independent Churches to mainline Christian denominations and Muslim communities – when designing or implementing faith-based HIV prevention programs. It also describes the identity politics at work within various faith communities as well as between the faith sector and public health officials. And while it may be true that there have existed parallel if not competing discourses on HIV and AIDS in Botswana, between the public health sector and the faith sector or between traditional healers and allopathic physicians, each with their own paradigms of authority and evidence, these strands of discourse are, as suggested throughout this book, amenable to a dialogical rapprochement. Interweaving parallel discourses on HIV and AIDS is itself instrumental to the implementation of increasingly effective HIV prevention programs, enhanced HIV diagnostic capacities and better care for PLWHA (People Living with HIV and AIDS). Though these essays focus on the many obstacles to collaboration between faith communities and the public health sector in Botswana, they also suggest common ground for increasingly collaborative and effective faith-based HIV prevention interventions.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Assessment of the Capacity of Faith-based Organizations for HIV Prevention in Botswana written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Felicitas Becker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004164006
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aids and Religious Practice in Africa written by Felicitas Becker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display peoplea (TM)s resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.

Author : Isabel Apawo Phiri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith Communities written by Isabel Apawo Phiri and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has 3 parts: re-reading the Bible, challenging faith communities and practical resources for faith communities. It is the fruit of a conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians on "Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS: African Women Challenging Religion, Culture and Social Practices."

Author : Dr Marian Burchardt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472428412
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa written by Dr Marian Burchardt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.

Author : Jenny Trinitapoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199831556
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and AIDS in Africa written by Jenny Trinitapoli and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African AIDS epidemic has sparked fierce debate over the role of religion. Some scholars and activists argue that religion is contributing to the spread of HIV and to the stigmatization of people living with AIDS. Others claim that religion reduces the spread of HIV and promotes care and support for the sick and their survivors. Religion and AIDS in Africa offers the first comprehensive empirical account of the impact of religion on the AIDS epidemic. Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb draw upon extensive fieldwork in Malawi, including hundreds of interviews with religious leaders and lay people, and survey data from more than 30 other sub-Saharan African countries. Their research confirms the importance of religious narratives and institutions in everything related to AIDS in Africa. Among other key findings, Trinitapoli and Weinreb show that a combination of religious and biomedical approaches to prevention reduces risk most effectively; that a significant minority of religious leaders encourage condom use; that Christian congregations in particular play a crucial role in easing suffering among the sick and their dependents; and that religious spaces in general are vital for disseminating information and developing new strategies for HIV prevention and AIDS mitigation. For anyone wishing to move beyond the rhetoric and ideology that plague debates about one of the most challenging crises of our time, Religion and AIDS in Africa is the authoritative account. It will change the way readers think about religious life and about AIDS in the region.

Author : Frederick Klaits
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945840
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in a Church of Life written by Frederick Klaits and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi’s distinctly maternal ethos and the "spiritual" kinship embodied in the church’s nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available examples of the church members’ preaching and song.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782825415238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Hope written by Ezra Chitando and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the need for an in-depth understanding and analysis of how Churches in Africa are living with the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, Ezra Chitando's book insists that the church must accompany people and communities living with HIV and AIDS on their journeys of faith. He argues that the church in Africa must be one with friendly feet, which ministers to every need, thus repenting its negative attitudes as well as the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. As it works with and among those living with HIV, it must also interrogate its theology, its attitude to sexuality and its gender insensitivity and awaken to the realisation that it must become an all-embracing community. Chitando insists that a church with friendly feet does not pose questions about the moral standing of those with whom it is journeying. African churches need friendly feet to journey with individuals and communities living with HIV and AIDS, warm hearts to demonstrate compassion and anointed hands to effect healing. Reflecting on these themes, Living with Hope is the first of two books.

Author : Frederick Klaits
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520259669
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in a Church of Life written by Frederick Klaits and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi’s distinctly maternal ethos and the “spiritual” kinship embodied in the church’s nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available examples of the church members’ preaching and song.