The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements: Religion and AIDS in Africa

Author:   Marian Burchardt (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of Gottingen, Germany) ,  Amy Patterson (University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA) ,  Louise Mubanda Rasmussen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
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Pages:   146
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
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Author:   Marian Burchardt (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of Gottingen, Germany) ,  Amy Patterson (University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA) ,  Louise Mubanda Rasmussen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138237377


ISBN 10:   113823737
Pages:   146
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"1. The politics and anti-politics of social movements: religion and HIV/AIDS in Africa 2. Can charity and rights-based movements be allies in the fight against HIV/AIDS? Bridging mobilisations in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa 3. Pastors as leaders in Africa’s religious AIDS mobilisation: cases from Ghana and Zambia 4. ""To donors, it’s a program, but to us it’s a ministry"": the effects of donor funding on a community-based Catholic HIV/AIDS initiative in Kampala 5. HIV/AIDS activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique’s Equipas de Vida 6. The abstinence campaign and the construction of the Balokole identity in the Ugandan Pentecostal movement 7. Yao migrant communities, identity construction and social mobilisation against HIV and AIDS through circumcision schools in Zimbabwe"

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Marian Burchardt is a sociologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. His research explores regimes of religious diversity, secularism, and the politics of urban space. He has published in the Journal of Religion in Africa, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Sociology, and Oxford Development Studies. Amy S. Patterson is Professor of Politics at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. Her research interests include religion and health in Africa. She has published The Politics of AIDS in Africa and The Church and AIDS in Africa, as well as articles in Africa Today, Contemporary Politics, and Journal of Modern African Studies. Louise Mubanda Rasmussen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research explores the anthropology of development in areas such as AIDS, religion, NGO practice and celebrity intervention. She has published in Culture, Health & Sexuality, Journal of Progressive Human Services and Canadian Journal of African Studies.

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