Calling for Justice Throughout the World Catholic Women Theologians on the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

by Iozzio, Mary Jo; Miranda, Elsie M.; Roche, Mary M. Doyle

• ISBN13: 9780826428646
• ISBN10: 0826428649
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Roman Catholic women theologians from all over the world discuss the pandemic in terms of their particular geographical and social location.

Author Biography

Mary Jo Lozzio is Professor of Theology at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Mary M. Doyle Roche is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Edward Bennett Williams Faculty Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Elise M. Miranda is Assistant Professor of Theology and Director of Ministerial Formation at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Companion to Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention	p. xi
Introduction: Globalizing Solidarity	p. 1
A Meditation Show Me My Face, O Lord	p. 14
Challenges to Justice
AIDS, Women, and Empowerment	p. 25
HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: Calling for Dignity, Justice, and Care	p. 31
Change Is Possible: Churches Reading and Responding to the Signs of the Times	p. 38
Justice, Faith, and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century	p. 45
Loving Embrace: Sexual Flourishing and an HIV-Postive Humanity	p. 53
Challenging the Church
Information, Sex Education, and Church Intervention in Public Policy in the Philippines	p. 61
HIV/AIDS in Australia	p. 68
Hope, Lament, and a Prophetic Imagination for a World with HIV/AIDS	p. 75
"God (Not) Gwine Sin Yuh": HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean	p. 84
Migrants and Immigrants
France 2007: Always and Still the Challenge of AIDS	p. 97
AIDS-An Ethical Analysis	p. 105
Whose Truth? Discourses of AIDS in Britain	p. 113
What's Love Got to Do with It? Sex, Survival, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa	p. 119
Invisible and Vulnerable
Children and the Common Good	p. 127
The Vulnerability of People with Disabilities and the Elderly	p. 134
Church Communities and HIV-Affected Persons: Toward Abundant Life	p. 140
Hidden in Plain View: Older African-Americans	p. 147
he Female Face of AIDS
The Feminization of AIDS in the Philippines: Culture, Poverty, and Migration	p. 157
Communities Visible and Invisible in Oceania	p. 167
Women Confronting Stigma in Tamil Nadu, India	p. 174
Responses to HIV/AIDS in Hoima Diocese, Uganda	p. 183
Retrieving Spirituality as a Resource for Coping with HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from South India	p. 192
Conclusion Kissing the Leprous: A Theological Praxis for AIDS	p. 203
Notes	p. 213
Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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