Religion and AIDS-treatment in Africa
Subtitle: saving souls, prolonging lives
By: edited by Rijk van Dijk, African Studies Centre, Holland, Hansjörg Dilger, Freie Universitä̈t Berlin, Germany, Marian Burchardt, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religions and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and Thera Rasing, University of Lusaka (UNILUS), Zambia
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781409456698; 9781472428400; 9781472428417
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); Treatment; Religious aspects; Christianity
Description: 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.
Notes: Some chapters were first presented at a 2009 international symposium in Lusaka, Gambia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.