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In the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, African Catholic and Sunni Muslim leaders addressing HIV and AIDS are faced with a unique challenge. On the one hand, they are called to attend to the spiritual wellbeing of the infected individual; on the other hand, they are increasingly charged with serving as the stewards of the physical bodies of those negatively affected by such a physiologically debilitating and social stigmatized disease through certain identifiable interreligious traditions common to both faiths.
This book explores this development firsthand. While conducting fieldwork in Nairobi, Carey interviewed Muslim and Catholic leaders working in three areas—HIV and AIDS prevention, education, and destigmatization. These recorded observations and accounts help to illustrate that religious officials from within African Catholicism and Sunni Islam are attempting to provide the common inter-religious traditions of mercy, hospitality, and justice in a holistic manner for those living with the virus in the city.
The research that produced this book involved six weeks of fieldwork during the summer of 2014 to help fill in the interstices between anthropological, sociological, and ethnographic accounts provided by other leading academics in their respective fields. It presumed that religious traditions in Kenya exhibit a susceptibility to culture and context and a practical openness to its social environment which then affords this particular work a unique theological perspective in its attempt to identify and analyze patterns of social behavior and religious organization.
Contents
Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya
1. "I was sick and you took care of me": Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya
2. "Did you not know that one of my servants was sick, and you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him, you would have found Me with him?": Muslim Responses to HIV and AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya
3. "Mercy triumphs over judgment": Comparative Theological Notions of Mercy, Hospitality, and Justice in the Lived Muslim and Catholic Response to HIV and AIDS in Kenya
4. "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her": Lingering Questions of Sexuality and Areas of Unaddressed Concern
Conclusion: "Therefore, the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore He will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of Justice; blessed are those who wait for Him."
