, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Book Titles No access
Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya
Authors:
Publisher:
2018
Summary
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.
Keywords
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7828-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7829-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
205
Product type
Book Titles
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Preface No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access
1 “I was sick and you took care of me” No access Pages 1 - 50
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?” No access Pages 51 - 106
3 “Mercy triumphs over judgment” No access Pages 107 - 138
4 “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” No access Pages 139 - 176
