Reading the Bible in the light of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Ecumenical Review

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-344

  West, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 60949742047     PISSN: 00130796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-6623.2003.tb00468.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bongi Zengele-Nzimande in Andreas Stoos, "Spreading Hope within the Outcasts of Society: How Contextual Bible Study Can Make a Powerful Contribution to the Struggle against HIV/AIDS and Possible Consequences for the Swiss Context." Honours, School of Theology, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, p.41
2. Stooss, "Spreading Hope", p.42
3. Young men are more reluctant both to go for testing and to declare their status
4. Mail and Guardian, 6-12 Dec. 2002, p.21
5. and The Natal Witness, 6 Dec. 2002: 1)
6. Gerald O. West, Contextual Bible Study, Pietermaritzburg, Cluster, 1993
7. and "Kairos 2000: Moving beyond Church Theology", in Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 108, pp.55-78
8. Gerald O. West, "Indigenous Exegesis: Exploring the Interface between Missionary Methods and the Rhetorical Rhythms of Africa; Locating Local Reading Resources in the Academy." Neotestamentica
9. James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcipts, New Haven and London, Yale UP, 1990
10. and The Academy of the Poor: Towards a Dialogical Reading of the Bible, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999
11. Carlos Mesters, "The Use of the Bible in Christian Communities of the Common People", in The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics, N. K. Gottwald and R. A. Horsley eds, Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 1984
12. and Defenseless Flower: A New Reading of the Bible. Transl. F. McDonagh, Maryknoll NY, Orbis, 1989
13. Gerald O. West, Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context, 2nd ed., Maryknoll NY and Pietermaritzburg, Orbis and Cluster, 1995, pp.188-93
14. Sexual transmission, while the dominant form of transmission in South Africa, is not the only form of transmission
15. The solidarity programme has begun to rehabilitate the funeral of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses. When one of their members dies, they approach the family and the church in order to plan an alternative type of funeral, a funeral in which the status of the deceased is recognized and honoured rather than hidden and shamed. During such a funeral, other members of the solidarity programme bear testimony to living "positively", and so the funeral becomes educative as well as a service of remembrance
16. The Natal Witness, 2 Dec. 2002
17. Bob Ekblad, "Reading for Good News among Mexican Immigrants and Inmates Submerged in the Bad News", 2001, p.2. Available from www.peoplesseminary.org/english/publications/120301.html
18. Ekblad, "Reading for Good News", pp.3-4
19. Ekblad, "Jacob and Esau behind Bars: Resisting Rejection by the "Elect" in Genesis 25-27", 2002. Available from www.peoplesseminary.org/english/publications/112701print.html
20. See also Gerald O. West, "Contextual Bible Study in South Africa: A Resource for Reclaiming and Regaining Land, Dignity and Identity", in The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trends, and Trajectories, G. O. West and M. W. Dube eds, Leiden, Brill, 2000
21. Other examples of texts used are Mark 10:46-52
22. and Matt. 8:23-27
23. (see Stooss, "Spreading the Hope", pp.45-46)
24. Nyerere, Julius, "The Church and Society". Speech at the Maryknoll Mission, New York, 16 Oct. 1970, in Freedom and Development: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1968-1973, Dar Es Salaam, Oxford UP, 1973, pp.215-16
25. Launched in 1998, the aims of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) include "ensuring access to proper, affordable treatment for AIDS sufferers, preventing and eliminating new HIV infections and fostering HIV/AIDS treatment literacy" (Mail and Guardian, 31 Jan.-6 Feb. 2003, p.8)
26. For further information on the work of the BIG coalition see the fact sheets available on the Web from www.blacksash.org (see "Campaigns" section) or email Masitye at masitye@hotmail.com.