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020			_a9781875053827 _qpaperback
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245	0	0	_aBroken bodies and healing communities : _bthe challenge of HIV and AIDS in the South African context / _cedited by Neville Richardson.
264		1	_aPietermaritzburg, South Africa : _bCluster Publications, _c2009.
300			_axiv, 208 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"The book not only contributes to the academic debate about the pandemic but it provides a tool that needs to find a space in every household, as this would directly contribute to the government's as well as to the Religious Leaders' Awareness Campaign - that the HIV and AIDS pandemic exists and kills. Whilst the authors do not claim to have provided a medicinal cure for the disease, they do provide a source of encouragement to those broken bodies who are victims of the scourge. Well known scholars, some of them major names in South African theology, others drawn from the international scene, consider how the Bible, our ideas of Church, our practical theology, are all challenged and perhaps changed in the face of social realities, especially that of HIV and AIDS. Each of the contributors challenges us. Many of them break new ground. All of them raise questions which we need to face in obedience to God. What have been the effects of HIV and AIDS on some communities, and what have been the responses of others? Can those with better resources, both material and spiritual, offer help and healing and, in the process, become better communities themselves? How is the ambiguous response of the churches to be understood? In the absence of vaccine or cure, can healing nevertheless take place? Can suffering individuals, families and communities be helped to cope? These are questions no-one concerned with HIV and AIDS can afford to ignore"--Publisher's website.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _xTreatment _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aChurch and social problems _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aChurch work with the sick _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aSpiritual healing _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aHealing _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _xSocial aspects _zSouth Africa.
700	1		_aRichardson, Neville.
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