The HIV and AIDS Bible
Selected Essays
Distributed for University of Scranton Press
175 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2006
The HIV and AIDS Bible opens a new chapter in African religious discourse by placing the pandemic at the forefront of theological discussions. In a series of incisive essays Musa W. Dube examines the HIV/AIDS crisis in light of biblical and ethical teachings and argues for a strong theological presence alongside current economic, social, and political efforts to quell this devastating disease. The HIV and AIDS Bible will be helpful for teachers, clergy, social workers, health care providers, and anyone else seeking creative ways to integrate their religious beliefs with their efforts to alleviate the suffering caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
What makes Dube's work unique, fresh, and provocative is not only the verve and relentless passion with which she inhabits such a world of post-colonial hybridity, but also the commitment to engage and interrogate its limits and possibilities. . . . Moreover, in Dube's work it is clear that what is at stake is not simply the destiny of this one uniquely gifted, brilliant, and exceptionally capable scholar, but the very survival of millions of others who, like her, find themselves within the post-colonial space. . . . She writes, reads, sings, and speaks of, and on behalf of, Mamma Africa. That is why her work provides a positive model of what African scholarship should be about, namely, trying to make sense of these complex narratives that constitute our multiple social locations in a post-colonial Africa. . . . It is obvious that Musa Dube has not just squarely and creatively responded to the interruption of HIV/AIDS, but, in doing so, has also provided a good example of what a socially engaged scholarship for liberation and healing in the wake of AIDS might look like."--Emmanuel Katongole, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL Forum)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Toward Doing a Prophetically-Healing Scholarship
Have You Heard Me Today? A Poetic Biblical Reading
Part I - Theological Education in the HIV & AIDS Struggle
Chapter 1: Doing Theological/Religious Education in a Paradigm of Shattered Dreams & Culs-de-Sac
Chapter 2: Theological Education: HIV & AIDS and Other Challenges in the New Millennium
Part II - Biblical Studies in the HIV & AIDS Struggle
Chapter 3: Methods of Mainstreaming HIV & AIDS in Biblical Studies
Chapter 4: Talitha Cum! A Postcolonial Feminist HIV & AIDS Reading of Mark 5:21-43
Chapter 5: African Women's Hermeneutics and the HIV & AIDS Apocalypse
Part III - The Gospel & Christology in the HIV & AIDS Struggle
Chapter 6: The Challenge of HIV & AIDS and The Gospel
Chapter 7: Towards An HIV & AIDS Christology
Part IV - Ethics, Hope and the HIV & AIDS Struggle
Chapter 8: Let us Change Gears! Ethical Considerations in the HIV & AIDS Struggle
Chapter 9: New Questions; Old Stories: The Power of Sacred Stories
Conclusion
Chapter 10: The HIV & AIDS Decalogue
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