Mapping Interdisciplinary Communication Between the Disciplines of Religion and Public Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa
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While there has been a massive surge of interest and grey literature publication on religion and development and religion and health, especially at an international advocacy level, the academic disciplinary processes for such work remains poorly clarified – and largely uncritical. This paper examines the interdisciplinary intersection of religion and public health (using the example of research on HIV/AIDS in Africa), and considers lingering clashes of disciplinary cultures and power that continue to make collaboration in this space a challenge.
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See H.G.M. Koenig et al., Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); B.Y. Lee and A.B. Newberg, “Religion and Health: A Review and Critical Analysis,” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 40, no. 2 (2005): 443–444; and A. Meier et al., eds., Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005).
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S. Deneulin and C. Rakodi, “Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On,” World Development 39, no. 1 (2011): 45–54; K. Marshall and M. Van Saanen, Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2007).
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J. Olivier, Local Faith Communities and Immunization for Systems Strengthening: Scoping Review and Companion Bibliography (London: Report for the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, 2014).
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S.R. Melkote and H.L. Steeves, Communication for Development in the Third World: Theory and Practice for Empowerment (London: Sage, 2001), 94.
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T.S.J. O’Connor and E. Meakes, “Towards a Joint Paradigm Reconciling Faith and Research,” in Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Explorations (ed. A. Meier, T.S.J. O’Connor, and P. Van Katwyk; Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005), 11.
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A. Petersen and D. Lupton, The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk (London: Sage Publications, 1996), 6.
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J.R. Cochrane, “Religion, Public Health and a Church for the 21st Century,” International Review of Mission 95, no. 376–377 (2006): 60–61.
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For more on dialogue fatigue see Olivier, “Common Ground”; and H.E. Banna, “Conflicting Agendas, Converging Hopes” in Connecting Regions – Creating New Opportunities: Bridging Civilisations (Istanbul, World Economic Forum, 2006), 1.
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See R. Skolnik, “Essential Public Health” in Essentials of Global Health (ed. R. Riegelman; Boston, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008).
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Olivier, “Common ground”; J. Olivier et al. “Understanding the Significance of Faith-Based Healthcare Providers in Africa: a Review of the Evidence with a Focus on Magnitude, Reach, Cost, and Satisfaction,” The Lancet (forthcoming, late 2014).
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Becher and Trowler, Academic Tribes, 23. They also argue here that both disciplinary epistemology and the phenomenology of that knowledge are important and (in practice) are inseparably intertwined with academic cultures.
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See B. Ballard and J. Clanchy, “Literacy in the University: An ‘Anthropological’ Approach,” in Literacy by Degrees (ed. G. Taylor, et al.; Milton Keynes; Philadelphia, Penn.: Society for Research into Higher Education; Open University Press, 1988); Bauer, “The Antithesis.”
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See R. Detels and L. Breslow, “Current Scope and Concerns in Public Health,” in Oxford Textbook of Public Health: the Scope of Public Health (eds. R. Detels, et al.; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 10. The obvious variation being specialisations such as cultural epidemiology.
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A. Petersen and D. Lupton, The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk (London: Sage Publications, 1996), 6.
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P.J. Brown, “Quantiphobia, Quantiphilia, Narratives and Graphs: Epistemologies of Religion and Public Health and the Two Cultures of Evidence” in Maps and Mazes: Critical Inquiry at the Intersection of Religion and Health (Emory University, Atlanta: 2007).
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See Olivier, “Common Ground”; Olivier, J. “‘An FB-oh?’: Mapping the Etymology of the Religious Entity Engaged in Health” in When Religion and Health Align: Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation (eds. J.R. Cochrane, B. Schmid and T. Cutts; Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2011), 24–42; Olivier, “FB–oh”; Olivier and Wodon, “Layers”.
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S. De Gruchy, “Re-Learning Our mother Tongue? Theology in Dialogue with Public Health,” Religion & Theology 14, no. 1&2 (2006): 47–67. (Paper originally read in the panel: Religion, Health, and Social Justice: African Perspectives on a Global Issue at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C.: November 2006.)
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See J. Brannen, ed., Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research (Aldershot: Avebury, 1992). This does not mean that there is no specialised jargon in RS, but rather that RS scholars need to take more time to write themselves into particular concepts.
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R. Dubos, “Mirage of Health,” in Health and Disease: A Reader (eds. B. Davey, A. Gray, and C. Seale; Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995).
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G. Osborn and P. Ohmans, Finding Work in Global Health (Saint Paul, Minn.: Health Advocates Press, 2005), 25.
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P. Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power (ed. J.B. Thompson; trans. G. Raymond and M. Adamson; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), 236.
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See C. Allais, ed., The Sociology of Health and Illness (Johannesburg: Lexicon, 1995); Aggleton and Davis, eds., AIDS: Individual, Cultural and Policy Dimensions.
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See M. Stenmark, How to Relate Science and Religion: A Multidimensional Model (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004), 9.
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J.J. Carvalho, “The Agenda for Religion-And-Science: A Biologist’s Perspective on the Future of the Science-Religion Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century,” Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science 43, no. 1 (2008): 218.
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Arms in Repko, Interdisciplinary Research, 291. See C.E. Evink, “Jacques Derrida and the Faith in Philosophy,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 (2004).
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Evink, “Jacques Derrida and the Faith in Philosophy,” 314–315.
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See S. Abdool Karim et al., “Bridging the Gap: Potential for a Health Care Partnership between African Traditional Healers and Biomedical Personnel in South Africa,” South African Medical Journal 84 (1994): 1–16.
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See M. Hammersley, “Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide,” in Mixing Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Research (ed. J. Brannen; Aldershot: Avebury, 1992), 39.
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L. Nadar, “Introduction,” in Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge (ed. L. Nader; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1996), 2.
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J.V. Millen et al., “Conclusion: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will,” in Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor (ed. J.Y. Kim, et al.; Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), 383–384.
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Mapping Interdisciplinary Communication Between the Disciplines of Religion and Public Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa
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While there has been a massive surge of interest and grey literature publication on religion and development and religion and health, especially at an international advocacy level, the academic disciplinary processes for such work remains poorly clarified – and largely uncritical. This paper examines the interdisciplinary intersection of religion and public health (using the example of research on HIV/AIDS in Africa), and considers lingering clashes of disciplinary cultures and power that continue to make collaboration in this space a challenge.
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