Religious responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil

巴西针对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的宗教应对措施

• 批准号: 7064891
• 负责人: RICHARD G PARKER
• 金额: $ 40.49万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-10 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7064891
• 关键词: Brazil; HIV infections; archives; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; human subject; interview; religion

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): After 2 decades of mostly individual-behavior based research on HIV/AIDS, a new understanding has begun to emerge of the social and cultural factors that structure vulnerability to HIV infection and shape the possibilities for prevention and treatment. In spite of the fact that they have received relatively little research attention, religious organizations have been central to the response of HIV/AIDS since the very beginning of the epidemic. In few countries has the complex impact of religion and religious organizations in relation to HIV/AIDS been more powerful than Brazil. The proposed study seeks to: 1) Develop a comparative analysis of the multiple ways in which Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Afro-Brazilian religions have responded (at the policy, institutional and population levels) to HIV/AIDS in Brazil; 2) Empirically document the importance that each of these 3 major religious traditions has given to HIV/AIDS, and the reasons that have led them to do so; 3) Assess, through a series of case studies, the ways in which the responses of each religious traditions has interacted with local communities, the wider social universe of civil society, and the nation- state, in impacting upon the broader response to AIDS; and, 4) Through comparative analysis, to more fully understand the ways in which both importance and impact have been influenced by the religious belief system or religious doctrine of each tradition, the organizational and institutional structures that each exhibits, and the ways in which each interacts with and articulates itself with communities, civil society, and the state, in order to shape the broader social and political response to AIDS. The project will employ a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies over a 5 year period, including archival research, surveys, participant observation, oral histories, in-depth interviews, life history interviews and case-studies in the 5 study sites, in order to capture and chronicle the dynamic trajectory of an extremely multifaceted role of religious organizations in the Brazilian response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The extensive and in depth fieldwork is necessary given the scope of the project and its goal of assessing the role of religious organizations in the country's mobilization in response to AIDS.

描述（由申请人提供）：经过20年的主要基于个人行为的艾滋病研究，对社会和文化因素的新认识开始出现，这些因素构成了艾滋病毒感染的脆弱性，并形成了预防和治疗的可能性。尽管宗教组织在研究方面受到的关注相对较少，但自艾滋病毒/艾滋病一开始流行以来，宗教组织一直是防治艾滋病毒/艾滋病的核心。宗教和宗教组织对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的复杂影响没有几个国家比巴西更强大。拟议的研究旨在：1)对巴西天主教、福音派新教和非裔巴西宗教（在政策、制度和人口层面）应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的多种方式进行比较分析；2)经验性地记录这三个主要宗教传统对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的重要性，以及导致他们这样做的原因；3)通过一系列案例研究，评估每种宗教传统的反应与当地社区、更广泛的民间社会和民族国家相互作用的方式，从而影响对艾滋病的更广泛的反应；4)通过比较分析，更全面地了解每种传统的宗教信仰体系或宗教教义对其重要性和影响的影响方式，每种传统所展示的组织和制度结构，以及每种传统与社区、民间社会和国家相互作用和表达自己的方式，以便形成更广泛的社会和政治对艾滋病的反应。该项目将在5年期间采用定性和定量方法相结合的方法，包括档案研究、调查、参与者观察、口述历史、深入访谈、生活史访谈和在5个研究地点的案例研究，以便捕捉和记录宗教组织在巴西应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病方面发挥的极其多方面作用的动态轨迹。鉴于该项目的范围及其目的是评估宗教组织在该国动员应对艾滋病方面的作用，广泛而深入的实地工作是必要的。