Strings attached AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa

This volume draws attention to the transnationalisation of religion and AIDS in Africa and addresses the question why so much of the transnational religious engagement with the disease has seemed to serve conservative values, such as disapproval of sex before marriage and condemnation of homosexuals...

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Corporate Authors: Sexuality, AIDS and Religion: Transnational Dynamics in Africa (Conference) (2011, University of Oxford), British Academy
Other Authors: Beckmann, Nadine (Editor), Gusman, Alessandro (Editor), Shroff, Catrine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2014, 2014
Series:Proceedings of the British Academy / Proceedings of the British Academy
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520 |a This volume draws attention to the transnationalisation of religion and AIDS in Africa and addresses the question why so much of the transnational religious engagement with the disease has seemed to serve conservative values, such as disapproval of sex before marriage and condemnation of homosexuals. Introducing concepts from the study of transnationalism into the study of religion and AIDS in Africa, the book offers a new set of conceptual tools for the analysis of how religious ideologies and moralities have been shaping the experience of AIDS in Africa