TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mligo,Elia Shabani
AU  - Moxnes,Halvor
TI  - Jesus and the stigmatized: reading the Gospel of John in a context of HIV/AIDS-related stigmatization in Tanzania 
SN  - 9781630876111
AV  - BV4460.7 .M55 2011
U1  - 261.832196979 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Eugene, OR
PB  - Pickwick Publications
KW  - Bible
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - John
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - HIV infections
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Patients
KW  - AIDS (Disease) in women
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Church work with the sick
KW  - AIDS phobia
KW  - Stigmatisation (Psychologie sociale)
KW  - Pastorale des malades
KW  - Peur du sida
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; General introduction -- Theoretical perspectives on stigmatization -- The context of HIV?AIDS-related stigmatization in Tanzania -- Participant-centered bible study : methodological issues -- The gospel of John and stigmatization I : scholarly reading of texts -- The gospel of John and stigmatization II : community reading of texts -- From stigmatizationto compassion : a christology from below -- Towards being faithful communities of the disciples of Jesus : implications for contemporary churches
N2  - "In this volume Elia Shabani Mligo draws on his fieldwork among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Tanzania, selects stigmatization as his perspective, and chooses participant-centered contextual Bible study as his method to argue that the reading of texts from the Gospel of John by PLWHA (given their lived experiences of stigmatization) empowers them to reject stigmatization as unjust. Mligo's study shows that Christian PLWHA reject stigmatization because it does not comply with the attitude of Jesus toward stigmatized groups in his own time. The theology emerging from the readings by stigmatized PLWHA, through their evaluation of Jesus' attitudes and acts toward stigmatized people in the texts, challenges churches in their obligatory mission as disciples of Jesus. Churches are challenged to reconsider healing, hospitality and caring, prophetic voices against stigmatization, and the way they teach about HIV and AIDS in relation to sexuality. Churches must revisit their practices toward stigmatized groups and listen to their voices. Mligo argues that participant-centered Bible-study methods similar to the one used in this book (whereby stigmatized people are the primary interlocutors in the process) can be useful tools in listening to the voices of stigmatized groups"--
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