TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Religion, Flesh, and Blood: Re-creating Religious Culture in the Context of HIV/AIDS
JO  - Sociology of religion
A1  - Leong, Pamela
SP  - 295
EP  - 311
VL  - 67
IS  - 3
N2  - This ethnography of an African-American AIDS ministry in Los Angeles aims to provide insight as to why this congregation is able to: transcend constraints imposed by traditional religious institutions; address the health, spiritual, and social needs of its parishioners without losing sight of its religious traditions; and, at all times, maintain an AIDS-activist orientation. The focus is on the congregation's distinct religious-therapeutic culture. Through processes of ideological reconstruction, the congregation enables a consonance between religious traditions and its members' unique identities. The reworking of dominant Christian ideology is exemplified in how the pastor has re-framed the divine, in how he has incorporated psycho-therapeutic elements into religious rituals, in his method of exegesis, and in how he has reworked the sacred-profane divide. But as a separatist religious organization, this congregation also offers alternative and oppositional religious and social cultures, providing a familiar and empowering site for its members<p /> 
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SN  - 1069-4404
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socrel/67.3.295
ID  - ref1
ER  -