The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil: Negotiating the contradictions between religious belief and the realities of everyday life.
The Catholic Church, moral doctrine, and HIV prevention in Recife, Brazil: Negotiating the contradictions between religious belief and the realities of everyday life.
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10.1080/14755610.2011.633271
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2011
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Parker RG
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作者：
Rios LF;de Aquino FL;Muñoz-Laboy M;Murray LR;Oliveira C;Parker RG
宗教信仰在形成当地对艾滋病毒和艾滋病的反应方面发挥了关键作用。作为世界上最大的天主教国家，巴西也不例外。然而，很少有研究记录宗教教义是如何在其世俗领袖和追随者中付诸实践的。在这篇文章中，我们介绍了来自巴西累西腓的民族志研究，旨在了解宗教教义在地方层面上的解释方式。在当代巴西天主教的社会学背景下，我们通过对神职人员、非专业领袖和教区居民的采访，来讨论天主教会的性观念如何转化为其追随者的日常生活。我们探讨了天主教的忠贞理想和婚后性行为与教会信徒的日常现实之间的脱节，强调了性别在定义性角色和性期望方面所起的作用。最后，考虑到巴西天主教会对艾滋病的正式制度反应，以及天主教徒日常生活的社会和文化背景，我们为未来的研究和艾滋病毒预防策略提出了问题。
Religious beliefs have had a key role in shaping local responses to HIV and AIDS. As the world’s largest Catholic country, Brazil is no exception. Yet little research has been conducted to document how the religious doctrine is enacted in practice among its lay leaders and followers. In this article, we present ethnographic research from Recife, Brazil, conducted to understand the way in which religious doctrines are interpreted on a local level. Contextualized within the sociology of contemporary Brazilian Catholicism, we draw on interviews with clergy members, lay leaders and parishioners in order to discuss how the Catholic Church’s vision of sexuality translates into the everyday lives of its followers by. We explore the disjuncture between the Catholic ideals of fidelity and delaying sex until marriage with the everyday reality of the Church’s followers, highlighting the role that gender plays in defining sexual roles and expectations. We conclude posing questions for future research and HIV prevention strategies considering the formal institutional response of the Brazilian Catholic Church to AIDS on one hand, and the social and cultural contexts in which Catholics live their daily lives on the other.