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Spirituality and Religion in Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Kwazulu-natal, South Africa: A Longitudinal Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria and University of Limpopo,This study assesses the effects of spirituality and religion in health outcomes of patients on ART in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Participants were 735 patients who attended three HIV clinics for ART over a period of 20 months as follows: 519... -
South African Muslim Psychologists' Perceptions of Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, aheera Ismail --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study explored perceptions of mental illness in a sample of 10 female Muslim psychologists in a South African city to determine the influences of religion (and Islam specifically) on their understanding of the aetiology and treatment of mental illness... -
Narratives on Death and Bereavement From Three South African Cultures: An Exploratory Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Denise Appel --- University of South Africa, Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa,The study aimed to explore how three culturally diverse South African women (n=3) constructed death and bereavement. Data were qualitatively gathered and thematically analyzed. Findings revealed grand narratives (other than western dominance) on death perceptions and bereavement within the Tswana... -
HIV/AIDS fatalism, beliefs and prevention indicators in Gabon:comparisons between Gabonese and Malians
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: RosannaF Hess --- , United States Martin Mbavu --- , United StatesHIV/AIDS fatalism may impact on individuals’ health-seeking behaviour and HIV-prevention efforts. This descriptive study measured levels of HIV/AIDS fatalism and documented HIV/AIDS beliefs and practices among a sample of Gabonese and Malians living in Gabon, West Africa. The Powe Fatalism... -
‘Every disease has its cure’: faith and HIV therapies in Islamic northern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jack Ume Tocco --- Department of Anthropology, United StatesNorthern Nigeria has one of the highest levels of HIV prevalence among societies that are predominantly Muslim. In the last decade the region has experienced marked expansion of religiously-oriented healing practices following the formal adoption of Islamic sharia law. Since... -
Christian identity and men's attitudes to antiretroviral therapy in Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Anthony Simpson --- School of Social Sciences, United KingdomIncreasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), especially in urban areas in Zambia, has transformed the landscape of the HIV epidemic to include hope. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research, this article briefly describes the religious ideas of a cohort of former... -
A critical historical analysis of the South African Catholic Church's HIV/AIDS response between 2000 and 2005
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen Muoki Joshua --- School of Religion and Theology, Department of History of Christianity, South AfricaThe South African HIV and AIDS experience is unique in many ways considering the country's delayed and robust epidemic, the apartheid context, and successive HIV-denialist government regimes. While the struggle for democracy may have overshadowed the enormity of the unfolding... -
Islamic perspectives on HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral treatment: the case of Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amusa Saheed Balogun --- Department of History, NigeriaSome religious reactions to the HIV epidemic in Africa unwittingly contributed to the expansion of the epidemic in its early years. This was because many religious people regarded the emergence of HIV and AIDS as divine punishment for man's sins... -
Kenyan pastors’ perspectives on communicating about sexual behaviour and HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- , United States MaryN Kizito --- , United States Jesica Kinya Mwithia --- , United States Lucy Njoroge --- , United States Kyalo wa Ngula --- , United States Kristin Davis --- , United StatesThe article presents an analysis of in-depth interviews with 18 leaders of Christian churches in Nairobi, Kenya, regarding the content and context of messages they disseminate to their congregations about sexual behaviour and HIV. The content of messages was nearly... -
Predictors of sexual behaviour among church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya: a cross-denominational study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ann Neville Miller --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States Kyalo wa Ngula --- Nicholson School of Communication, United States George Musambira --- Nicholson School of Communication, United StatesWe surveyed church-going youths in Nairobi, Kenya, to investigate denominational differences in their sexual behaviour and to identify factors related to those differences. In comparison with youths attending mainline churches, the youths surveyed at Pentecostal/evangelical churches were less likely to... -
Correlates of sexual activity versus non-activity of incoming first-year students at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Renette J Blignaut --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies, Tania Vergnani --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies, Joachim J Jacobs --- Department of Statistics and Population Studies,In order to contribute to the design of more effective programmes to curb the spread of HIV at tertiary institutions, this study compares the profile of students who are sexually active versus those who are not yet sexually active when... -
Religious participation and HIV-disclosure rationales among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College, United StatesDespite the cultural salience of Christianity in many parts of Africa and the expansion of antiretroviral treatment, few studies have examined experiences of religious participation among HIV-positive individuals. Correspondingly, most studies of HIV self-disclosure in sub-Saharan Africa focus primarily on... -
The Ways in Which Adolescents Cope and their Relationship to Age, Gender and Specific Religious Variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Trevor Moodley --- University of the Free State, South Africa Karel Esterhuyse --- University of the Free State, South Africa Roelf Beukes --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study investigated the roles of age, gender, the importance of religion/spirituality, attending church activities and frequency of prayer on the types of adolescents’ coping strategies. Participants were drawn from ten public high schools. Data on coping strategies, personal variables... -
Does thinking about the meaning of life make you happy in a religious and globalised world? A 75-nation study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohsen Joshanloo --- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dan Weijers --- Chungbuk National University, South KoreaThis paper reports on a multilevel study of 75 nations, which tests two hypotheses that arose from considering Tolstoy's experience of thinking about the meaning and purpose of life. The globalisation-as-exacerbator hypothesis predicts that as globalisation increases, the relationship between... -
Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and... -
Spirit and society: in defence of a critical anthropology of religious life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaAccording to recent criticisms, the critical anthropology of religious life in Africa, associated especially with the Comaroffs, has failed to take relations with invisible beings at face value. In this view, we should explore the social work that such relations... -
Sleep duration and chronotype in adults in Côte d'Ivoire: influence of gender, religion and age
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Claudia Borchers --- Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Dabila Ouattara --- Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Switzerland Christian Vollmer --- Institute of Psychology, Germany Christoph Randler --- Institute of Science, Geography and Technology, GermanyThis study investigated the sleep-wake rhythm and chronotype of people living in Côte d'Ivoire. We assessed sleep-wake behaviour in 556 adults (336 men, 220 women) between 25 and 54 years (mean: 38.63) by means of structured interviews. Data were analysed... -
Liminoid religion: Ritual practice in alternative spirituality in the Netherlands
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: P.G.A. Versteeg --- VISOR/Faculty of Theology, The NetherlandsAlternative spirituality can be seen as a particular form of religious practice related to processes of de-traditionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Although often regarded as a western, secularised phenomenon, such alternative forms of spirituality are becoming increasingly popular among the middle classes... -
Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and... -
Spirit and society: in defence of a critical anthropology of religious life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaAccording to recent criticisms, the critical anthropology of religious life in Africa, associated especially with the Comaroffs, has failed to take relations with invisible beings at face value. In this view, we should explore the social work that such relations... -
Reckoning HIV/AIDS care: A longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology & Anthropology, USA Arnau Van Wyngaard --- Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, South Africa Alan Whiteside --- CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy, CanadaThe article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care supporters who tend to 3 839 clients in... -
Competing prayers: the making of a Nigerian urban landscape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ulrika Trovalla --- The Nordic Africa Institute, SwedenWhile Christians are seen as aspiring to make the Nigerian city of Jos into a Christian city, Muslims are believed to be trying to turn Jos into a Muslim city. There is a struggle over the urban landscape that is... -
Managing belief in a hostile world: experiencing gifts of the Spirit at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church in Pretoria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jim Pieterse --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis article focuses on the infrequency with which “gifts of the Spirit” are experienced during services at a small Pentecostal church in Pretoria, attended mostly by Afrikaans-speaking men who self-identify as homosexual. It aims to shed some light on the... -
“The child can remember your voice”: parent–child communication about sexuality in the South African context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Esmeralda Vilanculos --- Centre of Excellence in Human Development, School of Human and Community Development, Department of Psychology, South Africa Mzikazi Nduna --- Centre of Excellence in Human Development, School of Human and Community Development, Department of Psychology, South AfricaThere is a wealth of research on parent–child communication about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and its influence on young people’s sexual behaviours. However, most of it is from the global North. The aim of this study was... -
‘Celibacy is certainly not for me!’: Transgressive Sexualities in Male Children in Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Asante Lucy Mtenje --- English Department, South AfricaMoses Isegawa's representation of young male sexuality in Abyssinian Chronicles draws our attention to sexuality as a mobile process of relation, a provisional, contextually-informed construct which challenges more naturalised assumptions of sexuality as a monolithic biological given. Even though there... -
Exploring the key components of a contemporary hospitality servicescape: Architecture, theology and community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter Singleton --- , The Netherlands Erwin Losekoot --- , The NetherlandsThis article aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of the hospitality servicescape. Through this analysis this article makes recommendations to managers on how they can set about creating a genuine sense of welcome and hospitality in a contemporary setting... -
Pragmatic restaurant tipping in star-rated hotels in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Simon O Were --- , Kenya Moses N Miricho --- , Kenya Vincent N Maranga --- , KenyaTipping can be traced to Tudor England in the sixteenth century. This act transformed into a custom, spreading to many countries. However, tipping is observed differently from one country to the other and thus is not homogeneous from a global... -
‘I thought if I marry the prophet I would not die’: The significance of religious affiliation on marriage, HIV testing, and reproductive health practices among young married women in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Denise Dion Hallfors --- , USA Bonita J. Iritani --- , USA Lei Zhang --- , USA Shane Hartman --- , USA Winnie K. Luseno --- , USA Elias Mpofu --- , , Australia Simbarashe Rusakaniko --- , , ZimbabweThis study examines the association between religious affiliation and reasons for marriage, perceived church attitudes, and reproductive health-seeking behaviors, including HIV testing, among young women in eastern rural Zimbabwe. The sample comprised women (N = 35) who had married by 2012 while... -
Call to prayer: the sound of the adhan, heritage and shifting urban identity in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Duane Jethro --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Mahoati Arthur Lehloenya --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaArchitectural analyses of heritage and the city largely focus on the visual and physical properties of buildings and sites. Traces of intangible, sensuous heritage such as sounds, smells and community-lived experience are often left out. This article critiques this tradition...
