Theology in the age of global AIDS & HIV
Subtitle: complicity and possibility
By: Cassie J. E. H. Trentaz
Series: Content and context in theological ethics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781137272898
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); Theological anthropology; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General; Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; HIV infections; Church work with the sick
Description: "This book explores both theo-historical complicity and theo-ethical possibilities for compassionate response to HIV & 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 & AIDS and calls for the embodiment of a communal ethic of "risk-sharing.""--