Theology in the Age of Global AIDS & HIV Complicity and Possibility [Hardcover]

Trentaz proposes an inclusive, complex framework for understanding the creation and maintenance of risk of contracting HIV & AIDS, takes a hard look at dominant theologies and proposes a new way of approaching a theo-ethical response to the pandemic within a communal ethic of 'risk-sharing,' privileging the voices of the marginalized.IntroductionBeginning Again PART I: THE FRAMEWORK 1.The Language of 'Risk': Setting the Story 2. Compounding Risk: The Move Toward 'Risk Environments' 3. Reluctance to Risk: The Story of the U.S. Christian Church PART II: COMPLICITY 4. Mind Over Matter: Risk and Stigma in Early Operating Theologies 5. Dirty Details: The Making of 'Risk Environments' at 'Home' and 'Abroad' 6. What Race is Your Disease? Africanizing 'Dirt' 7. Two More Considerations: Poverty and 'Social Sin' 8. Interlude: The Making and Unmaking of the World PART III: COMPLICITY 9. Roots of Resistance and Possibility: A Theological Anthropology 10. Risk of a Different Kind: 'Risk-Sharing' Through Listening and Confession 11. Risk of a Different Kind: 'Risk-Sharing' Through Faith, Hope, and Love Appendix A: HIV 101 Appendix B: Handling Some Terms Appendix C: A Brief Political History of HIV & AIDS in the United States

The HIV/AIDS crisis has involved a perfect storm of controversial issues - drugs, sex, and sexuality - that make for a challenging theological discussion. Cassie Trentaz's new book provides a fresh and courageous contribution to this discussion of HIV/AIDS, and the possibility of thinking ethically and doing ethics within the context of this death-dealing crisis. In particular, Trentaz tackles the issue of risk of exposure through attention to 'risk environments' and the role played by theological discourse in the construction of these troubled and troubling environments. The outcome of this discussion is the proposal of a new modality of thinking and acting based on the theo-ethical value of 'risk-sharing' premised on the vitality of new polC%