Theology in the age of global AIDS & HIV : complicity and possibility / Cassie J.E.H. Trentaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trentaz, Cassie.

Series:

Content and context in theological ethics

Palgrave Macmillan's content and context in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with the sick.

AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Religious aspects--Christianity.

HIV infections.

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Physical Description:

x, 204 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I The Framework

1 The Language of "Risk": Setting die Story 13

2 Compounding Risk: The Move Toward "Risk Environments" 23

3 Reluctance to Risk: The Story of the US Christian Church 31

Part II Complicity

4 Mind over Matter: Risk and Stigma in Early Operating Theologies 41

5 Dirty Details: The Making of "Risk Environments" at "Home" and "Abroad" 57

6 What Race Is Your Disease? Africanizing "Dirt" 67

7 Two More Considerations: Poverty and "Social Sin" 81

8 Interlude: The Making and Unmaking of the World 85

Part III Possibilities

9 Roots of Resistance and Possibility: A Theological Anthropology 93

10 Risk of a Different Kind: "Risk-Sharing" Through Listening and Confession 109

11 Risk of a Different Kind: "Risk-Sharing" Through Faith, Hope, and Love 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137272898

1137272899

9781137272928

1137272929

OCLC:

792880395