HIV/AIDS and religion in sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging field of enquiry

In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS...

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Hlavní autor: Denis, Philippe
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Archives de sciences sociales des religions 2014
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:In 2000 Robert Garner, a British anthropologist who became an AIDS activist, prefaced an article on the effect of religious affiliation on sexual behaviour in an AIDS-stricken South African township with the comment that the religious perspective was a “virtual foreigner” in the literature on AIDS (Garner, 2000: 41). In a review article on religion and HIV/AIDS policy Jill Olivier noted the longstanding “invisibility of religious organisations to the view of public health and policy makers”....