Theology in the age of global AIDS & HIV : complicity and possibility /
This book explores both theo-historical complicity and theo-ethical possibilities for compassionate response to HIV and AIDS. It summarizes interpretation from "risk groups and behaviors" to a more nuanced framework of "risk environments." It analyzes body-denying theologies ambi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Content and context in theological ethics.
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| Summary: | This book explores both theo-historical complicity and theo-ethical possibilities for compassionate response to HIV and AIDS. It summarizes interpretation from "risk groups and behaviors" to a more nuanced framework of "risk environments." It analyzes body-denying theologies ambiguous about human sexuality and supporting social hierarchies among people groups and creating risk environments systematized through ideologies in the European colonial project in Africa and African America. In order to counter these legacies, this book ends by asserting a constructive theological anthropology for the age of global HIV and AIDS and calls for the embodiment of a communal ethic of "risk-sharing." |
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| Physical Description: | x, 204 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137272898 (hardback) 1137272899 (hardback) 9781137272928 (pbk.) 1137272929 (pbk.) |