Religious responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil

在对艾滋病毒/艾滋病进行了20年以个人行为为基础的研究后，对 已经开始出现社会和文化因素，这些因素构成了对艾滋病毒感染和 塑造预防和治疗的可能性。尽管他们收到了相对较多的 很少有研究关注，宗教组织一直是应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的核心组织，自 疫情一开始就是这样。在少数国家有宗教和宗教的复杂影响 与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的组织比巴西更强大。 拟议的研究旨在：1)对以下多种方式进行比较分析： 天主教、福音派新教和非裔巴西人的宗教(在政策、体制上)作出了回应 和人口水平)对巴西艾滋病毒/艾滋病的影响；2)经验性地记录了每一项的重要性 三个主要宗教传统赋予艾滋病毒/艾滋病，以及导致他们这样做的原因；3) 通过一系列案例研究，评估每个宗教传统的应对方式 与当地社区、民间社会更广泛的社会世界和民族国家互动， 对更广泛的艾滋病应对措施产生影响；以及，4)通过比较分析，更充分地 了解宗教信仰对其重要性和影响力的影响 每一传统的制度或宗教教义，每一传统的组织和体制结构 展览，以及每个展览与社区、民间社会、 以及国家，以塑造更广泛的社会和政治应对艾滋病的措施。 该项目将在五年内采用定性和定量相结合的方法。 期间，包括档案研究、调查、参与者观察、口述历史、深度访谈、生活 五个研究地点的历史访谈和案例研究，以捕捉和记录动态 宗教组织在巴西对地震的反应中发挥极其多方面作用的轨迹 艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行。鉴于项目的范围和范围，广泛和深入的实地工作是必要的 其目标是评估宗教组织在该国动员应对艾滋病方面的作用。

After two 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 three 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 five year period, including archival research, surveys, participant observation, oral histories, in-depth interviews, life history interviews and case-studies in the five 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 necessarygiven the scope of the project and its goal of assessing the role of religious organizations in the country's mobilization in response to AIDS.