Reflections on the church and HIV/AIDS: South Africa

Theology Today

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-37

  Haddad, Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 60949842757     PISSN: 00405736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004057360506200104     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Tessa Marcus, "It Is Destroying the Children: Living and Dying with AIDS," in WO! Zaphela Izingane (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal, 1999), 9
2. For further discussion see Beverley Haddad, "African Theologies of Survival: Intersecting Faith, Feminisms, and Development" (PhD diss., University of Natal [2000])
3. "Religious Organisations in Reproductive Health," Forum Review (Dec. 2001), 4
4. Personal conversations with members of churches in Vulindlela, KwaZulu-Natal (Aug. 2003)
5. See Radikobo Ntsimane, 'The Challenge of AIDS in the Rural African Indigenous Churches," Bulletin for Contextual Theology in Africa 7 (2000): 22-5
6. Kairos Document (Johannesburg: Skotaville, 1986), 1
7. Tinyiko Maluleke, 'The Challenge of HIV/AIDS for Theological Education," Missionalia 29 (2001): 125-43
8. Quoted in Daniela Gennrich, ed., The Church in an HIV+ World: A Practical Handbook (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster, 2004)
9. Quoted in Gerald West, "Reading the Bible in the Light of HIV/AIDS in South Africa," Ecumenical Review 55 (2003): 335-44
10. Steve de Gruchy, "How Then Shall We Be Saved? AIDS, Community and Redemption," Bulletin for Contextual Theology in Africa 7 (2000): 18-20
11. Patricia Fresen, "Responsibility and Caring for One Another," in Stuart Bate, ed., Responsibility in a Time of AIDS: A Pastoral Response by Catholic Theologians and AIDS Activists in South Africa (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster, 2003)
12. Haddad
13. Delores Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993)
14. Lisa Vetten and Kailash Bhana, Violence, Vengeance and Gender: A Preliminary Investigation into the Links between Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (Johannesburg: The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2001), 6. This practice is also borne out by the stories of women from Mphopomeni, KwaZulu-Natal (personal conversation with Nompumelelo Mcwabe, gender field-worker of the Picterma-ritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness, after a workshop in April 2002)
15. Witness Echo (17 June 1999)
16. For a discussion on the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, see Isabel Phiri, "Doing Theology in Community: The Case of African Women Theologians in the 1990s," Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 99 (1997): 68-76
17. Emmanuel Katongole, "Christian Ethics and AIDS in Africa Today" Missionalia 29 (2001): 159
18. Group discussions with young men in Vulindlela, KwaZulu-Natal (March 2004). In this area of South Africa, family members are buried on the ancestral land and graves are dug by men in the extended family
19. Gerald West, "Reading Job 'Positively' in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa," Concilium 4 (2004): 112-24