HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches, and the “Joseph Generation” in Uganda

Gusman, Alessandro

doi:10.2979/aft.2009.56.1.66

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“…I assume that a shared sense of "we-ness" that distinguishes the group from others is particularly central to religious mobilization against HIV/AIDS (Melucci 1996, 73-74;Gusman 2009). Therefore, examining the effects of development professionalization on collective identities is highly relevant.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“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

Rasmussen

2013

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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En rapprochant les notions de mouvement social de la mobilisation des ressources et de l'identité collective, cet article analyse le rôle des ressources matérielles externes dans le choix des orientations de l'action collective contre le VIH/sida au sein de la Christian Caring Kamwokya (KCCC), une initiative catholique à assise commu nautaire basée à Kampala. Depuis sa formation à la fin des années 80, en tant que communauté de chrétiens offrant des « soins holistiques » aux personnes vivant avec le VIH/sida, la KCCC s'est transformée, dans le sillage de l'augmentation des financements externes, en une organisation non-gouvernementale (ONG) et professionnelle de développement. Au cours de cette transformation, les idéaux de soins holistiques ont peu à peu été éclipsés par des rationalités néolibérales sur le développement et par des préoccupations biopolitiques. C'est pourquoi l'article soutient qu'une mobilisation fructueuse des donateurs peut avoir des conséquences impré vues sur la nature de l'action collective religieuse contre le VIH/sida. AbstractCombining social movement approaches to resource mobilization and collective identity, this article investigates the role of external material resources in shaping the direction of collective action against HIV/AIDS within the Kamwokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC), a Catholic community-based initiative in Kampala. From its origins in the late 1980s as a community of Christians providing "holistic care" to people living with HIV/ AIDS, the KCCC has in the wake of increasing external funding been transformed into a professional development non-governmental organization (NGO). In the process, the ideals of holistic care have gradually been overshadowed by neo-liberal development rationalities and bio-political concerns. The article therefore argues that successfully mobilizing donor funding can have unintended consequences for the nature of religious collective action against HIV/AIDS.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“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

Rasmussen

2013

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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“…If not always explicitly, the evangelical notion of 'being saved' was increasingly taken to include AIDS in the list of evils from which twice-born Christians are being delivered (Dilger, 2007;Christiansen, 2009;Gusman, 2009). Here, acquiring membership in a Pentecostal community through conversion is conceived to save individuals from the threat of AIDS illness, sometimes replacing the biomedical notion of sexual HIV transmission with the idea of 'immunity by faith' (Burchardt, 2010a).…”

Section: Sexuality Sin and Healing: Christian Responses To Hiv/aidsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These developments have engendered a new wave of studies on the articulations of sexuality with religious discourses and practices (Garner, 2000;Gusman, 2009;Parsitau, 2009). Much of this research ties in with broader questions about ways in which expressions of sexuality -as well as relationships of healing and care -are afforded particular spiritual significance within the moralistic agendas and regimes of Pentecostal and evangelical Christianity (and partially concerning mainline churches) that are flourishing across sub-Saharan Africa.…”

Section: Overview Of the Study Of Religion And Hiv/aidsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Much of the condemning discourse on HIV in Islamic reformist movements seems to have constructed all this as a result of outside influences, somehow echoing discourses of moral superiority, which Van Dijk (2009) found to be reactivated in Pentecostal responses to HIV in Botswana. Interestingly, in Zanzibar, Muslim discourses of decay have been inscribed into narratives of intergenerational conflict, in which the older accuse the younger (Beckmann, 2009), while in Uganda Pentecostalism has seen the rise of a born-again 'Joseph generation' that holds the older generation responsible for the spread of HIV and consequently has become engaged in building a Christian country (Gusman, 2009). All this research demonstrates the need to explore the ways in which religion ties in with the larger social and political contexts and cultural sensibilities, on the basis of which meanings of HIV are collectively constructed.…”

Section: Moral Decay and Politicised Hiv: Muslim Experiences Of Hiv/aidsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…As a result, the focus is almost always, especially in the Pentecostal field, on preaching morals, sexual abstinence and fidelity. In various African countries, the emergence of this conservative public discourse on sexuality has been facilitated and reinforced by the building of international evangelical alliances, not least through the establishment of the United States President's Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) (Dilger, 2009;Gusman, 2009).…”

Section: Sexuality Sin and Healing: Christian Responses To Hiv/aidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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