Muslim and Catholic responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya

Muslim and Catholic responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya

Carey, Timothy James

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018

205 p.

English

9.5.6

9.5.6; 1.2

AIDS [pri]; health care delivery [pri]; HIV infection [pri]; Islamic ethics [pri]; Roman Catholic ethics [pri]

attitudes; communicable diseases; compassion; health promotion; patient care; religious ethics; theology

Kenya

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Introduction: "Remove the harm, Lord of men, and give healing": Muslim and Catholic responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya -- "I was sick and you took care of me": Catholic responses to HIV and AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya -- "Did you not know that one of my servants was sick, and you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him, you would have found me with him?": Muslim responses to HIV and AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya -- "Mercy triumphs over judgment": Comparative theological notions of mercy, hospitality, and justice in the lived Muslim and Catholic response to HIV and AIDS in Kenya -- "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her": Lingering questions of sexuality and areas of unaddressed concern -- Conclusion: "Therefore, the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the lord is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for him."

RA643.86.K4 C373 2018

Ethnographies of Religion

Includes bibliographic references and index

9781498578288 (print)