Full Description
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.
Contents
1: NADINE BECKMANN, CATRINE CHRISTIANSEN, ALESSANDRO GUSMAN AND RIJK VAN DIJK: Strings Attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa
Part 1: Transnational Relations and Conservative Agendas
2: CHRISTINE OBBO: Sponsored Sexuality, AIDS and Tough Choices
3: BROOKE GRUNDFEST SCHOEPF: Hands across the Sea: Religion, politics, gender and sex, in the US and Africa
4: IJEOMA AJIBADE: From an Activist's Point of View: Experiencing transnational dynamics among African migrant communities in the UK
5: JOANNA SADGROVE: Global Moralities, Local Responses: Interpreting sexual morality and social belonging in Uganda
Part 2: Transnational Power and Local Agency
6: AMY PATTERSON: Transnational Religious Networks Encounter Community Realities: HIV prevention in Zambia
7: LOUISE MUBANDA RASMUSSEN: Condoms, Pills and Professional Identity: The transnational ART Scale-up Project and Catholic HIV/AIDS counsellors in Uganda
8: BRENDA BARTELINK AND ERIK MEINEMA: Contested Sexualities and Shared Concerns: Power dynamics in a transnational network of faith-based organisations
9: ISAK NIEHAUS: 'I don't want to hear': HIV, AIDS and the power of words in Bushbuckridge, South Africa
Part 3: Transnational Ideas and Local Discourses about Sexuality
10: ANAÏS BERTRAND-DANSEREAU: 'If you cannot control yourself': Christian leaders as HIV preventers in Malawi
11: JONAS SVENSSON: Let's talk about sex: Islam and sexuality in positive Muslims' 'Theology of compassion'
12: ASTRID BOCHOW: The Choice of Health: Christian family planning among cosmopolitan educated professionals in times of HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Part 4: Transnational Identities and Homosexuality
13: LINDSAY EHRISMAN: 'Decadent Imports', 'Vile Abominations': (Under)developing discourses on male- male sex and the missionary position in Buganda, 1875-1910
14: ALEXANDRA MÜLLER: A Backlash of the Hegemony of Human Rights Discourse and Transnational Moralities: The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill
15: JACK UME TOCCO: The Mode of Transmission that Dare not Speak its Name: Islam, AIDS and the public secret of homosexuality in Northern Nigeria
Epilogue
16: RIJK VAN DIJK: Strings, Strains and Strides of Transnational Competence: Complex ambiguities
