Confronting the Challenge

Poverty, Gender and HIV in South Africa

von Suzanne Mulligan

207 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book examines some of the ways in which HIV/AIDS is affecting South African society. Catholic theological responses have focused extensively on the implications of HIV/AIDS for the area of sexual ethics. Although there are important questions to be answered here, many more fundamental issues have been overlooked as a result. This book responds to the need within Catholic theology for a greater examination of the injustices associated with the AIDS pandemic. The author argues that the human rights challenges associated with poverty, gender discrimination, sexual violence and access to essential AIDS-related health care are a crucial feature of the crisis. The author turns to the social teaching of the Catholic Church for a fuller framework of analysis in this regard and provides a critical examination of that teaching’s core concepts and principles. The work of leading international economists Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus is explored as a means of relating the principles of Catholic social teaching to the concrete social and economic realities that exacerbate this global pandemic.

• Reihe: Africa in Development
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein Religionsphilosophie
• ISBN: 9783039119387
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2010
• Größe: 22.5 x 15 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Jeggan C. Senghor