AIDS, Religion, and the Politics of Social Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 482-495

  Adogame, Afe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African Christianities, and diverseness; AIDS, religion, politics of social justice in Africa; Global politics of AIDS, social justice in Africa; HIV AIDS, controversial; HIV AIDS, global emergency; Indigenous, practitioners as stakeholders; Religious ferment in AIDS, social justice discourse; Social religious aspects of epidemic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885904605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444355390.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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