'Remove the Harm, Lord of Men, and Give Healing': Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya
[Thesis]
Timothy James Carey
Morris, James W.
Boston College
2016
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Committee members: Hollenbach, David; Keenan, James F.; Lykes, M. Brinton
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-97799-7
Ph.D.
Theology
Boston College
2016
In the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, African Catholic and Sunni Muslim leaders working in the field of healthcare for those living with HIV and AIDS are faced with a unique challenge. On the one hand, they are called to attend to the spiritual well-being of the infected individual; and on the other hand, they are increasingly charged with serving as the stewards of the physical bodies of those negatively affected by such a physiologically debilitating and social stigmatized disease through certain identifiable inter-religious traditions common to both faiths.
African Studies; Theology; Comparative
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Bioethics;Christianity;Comparative theology;HIV and aids;Islam;Kenya