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Author:

Sexuality, AIDS and Religion: Transnational Dynamics in Africa (Conference) (2011 : University of Oxford)

Title:

Strings attached : AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa / edited by Nadine Beckmann, Alessandro Gusman and Catrine Shroff.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

AIDS (Disease)--Africa--Religious aspects--Congresses.
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa--Congresses.
AIDS (Disease)--Africa--Congresses.
AIDS (Disease)--Christianity--Christianity--Congresses.
Transnationalism--Congresses.
Africa--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Beckmann, Nadine, 1976- editor.
Gusman, Alessandro, editor.
Shroff, Catrine, editor.
British Academy, issuing body.

Notes:

"This book is the result of the conference 'Sexuality, AIDS and Religion : Transnational Dynamics in Africa,' which was held at Oxford University in September 2011."--Page vii. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Strings attached : AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa / Nadine Beckmann, Alessandro Gusman, Catrine Shroff and Ruk van Dijk -- Sponsored sexuality, AIDS and tough choices / Christine Obbo -- Hands across the sea : religion, politics, gender and sex, in the US and Africa / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- From an activist's point of view : experiencing transnational dynamics among African migrant communities in the UK / Ijeoma Ajibade -- Global moralities, local responses : interpreting sexual morality and social belonging in Uganda / Joanna Sadgrove -- Transnational religious networks encounter community realities : HIV prevention in Zambia / Amy S. Patterson -- Condoms, pills and professional identity : the transnational ART Scale-up Project and Catholic HIV/AIDS counsellors in Uganda / Louise Mubanda Rasmussen --
Contested sexualities and shared concerns : power dynamics in a transnational network of faith-based organisations / Brenda Bartelink and Erik Meinema -- "I don't want to hear" : HIV, AIDS and the power of words in Bushbuckridge, South Africa / Isak Niehaus -- "If you cannot control yourself" : Christian leaders as HIV preventers in Malawi / Ana©s Bertrand-Dansereau -- Let's talk about sex : Islam and sexuality in Positive Muslims' "theology of compassion" / Jonas Svensson -- The choice of health : Christian family planning among cosmopolitan educated professionals in time of HIV/AIDS in Botswana / Astrid Bochow -- "Decadent imports", "vile abominations" : transnational discourses on male-male sex and the missionary position in Buganda, 1875-1910 / Lindsay Ehrisman -- Transnational moralities and invisible sexual minorities : human rights discourse and religion in Uganda / Alexandra M©ơller --
The mode of transmission that dare not speak its name : Islam, AIDS and the public secret of homosexuality in northern Nigeria / Jack Ume Tocco -- Epilogue : The strings, strains and strides of transnational competencies and complex ambiguities / Ruk van Dijk.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 194

ISBN:

0197265685
9780197265680

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866619889

LCCN:

2014395834

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)