Religion, Flesh, and Blood: Re-creating Religious Culture in the Context of HIV/AIDS
This ethnography of an African-American AIDS ministry in Los Angeles aims to provide insight as to why this congregation is able to: transcend constraints imposed by traditional religious institutions; address the health, spiritual, and social needs of its parishioners without losing sight of its re...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2006
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 295-311 |
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| Summary: | This ethnography of an African-American AIDS ministry in Los Angeles aims to provide insight as to why this congregation is able to: transcend constraints imposed by traditional religious institutions; address the health, spiritual, and social needs of its parishioners without losing sight of its religious traditions; and, at all times, maintain an AIDS-activist orientation. The focus is on the congregation's distinct religious-therapeutic culture. Through processes of ideological reconstruction, the congregation enables a consonance between religious traditions and its members' unique identities. The reworking of dominant Christian ideology is exemplified in how the pastor has re-framed the divine, in how he has incorporated psycho-therapeutic elements into religious rituals, in his method of exegesis, and in how he has reworked the sacred-profane divide. But as a separatist religious organization, this congregation also offers alternative and oppositional religious and social cultures, providing a familiar and empowering site for its members |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/67.3.295 |