1st Edition
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements Religion and AIDS in Africa
1. The politics and anti-politics of social movements: religion and HIV/AIDS in Africa Marian Burchardt, Amy S. Patterson and Louise Mubanda Rasmussen
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 Patricia Siplon
3. Pastors as leaders in Africa’s religious AIDS mobilisation: cases from Ghana and Zambia Amy S. Patterson
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 Louise Mubanda Rasmussen
5. HIV/AIDS activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique’s Equipas de Vida Rebecca J. Vander Meulen, Amy S. Patterson and Marian Burchardt
6. The abstinence campaign and the construction of the Balokole identity in the Ugandan Pentecostal movement Alessandro Gusman
7. Yao migrant communities, identity construction and social mobilisation against HIV and AIDS through circumcision schools in Zimbabwe Anusa Daimon
Biography
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.
