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Author : Shane Anthony Petzer
Release : 1990
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Book Synopsis AIDS, Christians and the New Morality by : Shane Anthony Petzer
Download or read book AIDS, Christians and the New Morality written by Shane Anthony Petzer. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony M. Petro
Release : 2015-06-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis After the Wrath of God by : Anthony M. Petro
Download or read book After the Wrath of God written by Anthony M. Petro. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the seemingly ever-expanding crisis. The minister's words and actions were met with a standing ovation from the overflowing audience, but he could not linger to enjoy their applause. Having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately upon finishing his sermon. Such was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the 1980s. In After the Wrath of God, Anthony Petro vividly narrates the religious history of AIDS in America. Delving into the culture wars over sex, morality, and the future of the American nation, he demonstrates how religious leaders and AIDS activists have shaped debates over sexual morality and public health from the 1980s to the present day. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, Petro takes a much broader view, encompassing the range of mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Catholic groups--alongside AIDS activist organizations--that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and care in the U.S. Petro analyzes how the AIDS crisis prompted American Christians across denominations and political persuasions to speak publicly about sexuality--especially homosexuality--and to foster a moral discourse on sex that spoke not only to personal concerns but to anxieties about the health of the nation. He reveals how the epidemic increased efforts to advance a moral agenda regarding the health benefits of abstinence and monogamy, a legacy glimpsed as much in the traction gained by abstinence education campaigns as in the more recent cultural purchase of gay marriage. The first book to detail the history of religion and the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., After the Wrath of God is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and public health.
Author : Kenneth R. Overberg
Release : 2006
Genre : AIDS (Disease)
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Book Synopsis Ethics and AIDS by : Kenneth R. Overberg
Download or read book Ethics and AIDS written by Kenneth R. Overberg. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS continues to devastate the lives of individuals and families, communities and countries. A growing numbness about HIV/AIDS, however, infects many people. Many fail to recognize that the AIDS epidemic is still getting worse, now spreading rapidly in the world's most populous countries. To help raise and renew consciousness about this threat to the world, Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis summarizes the basics of the AIDS epidemic and presents key themes insights based on the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. This ethical perspective is the result of decades of dialogue among Roman Catholics and other Christians, building on the strengths of the various traditions. This book offers a Christian view, with special emphasis on Roman Catholic thought; many of its ethical insights, however, can be shared by other faith traditions and by all people who desire to respond to the AIDS pandemic.
Author : Maria Cimperman
Release : 2005
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis When God's People Have HIV/AIDS by : Maria Cimperman
Download or read book When God's People Have HIV/AIDS written by Maria Cimperman. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Cimperman, an Ursuline sister, teaches moral theology and social ethics at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
Author : Jarrett Zigon
Release : 2011
Genre : Medical
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Book Synopsis "HIV is God's Blessing" by : Jarrett Zigon
Download or read book "HIV is God's Blessing" written by Jarrett Zigon. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zigon's ethnography provides a fascinating window onto the concrete processes through which people undergoing rehabilitation for drug addiction are remade as moral persons. This book adeptly combines ethnographically-based descriptions with forays into theology and Soviet history to deliver a compelling account of self-transformation in a contemporary Russian Orthodox milieu."—Eugene Raikhel, University of Chicago "Over the last decade, anthropologists have increasingly come to study the role of morality in shaping the course of social life. Within anthropological debates around morality, Zigon has been developing one of the most creative and challenging positions. In this book, he pushes his project to a whole new level, working it out carefully through an important ethnographic case. Those interested in morality in any field will want to read this striking exemplification of the way an anthropology of morality can help us think about social life in new ways."—Joel Robbins, University of California, San Diego
