The International Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa

CONFERENCE :  “Religious engagements with AIDS in Africa”

Copenhagen, 28 & 29 April, 2008

Venue: room 118 at the Trinitatis Annex, Koebmagergade 50, Copenhagen

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PROGRAMME

APRIL 28th

9.00 – 9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30 – 9.45 Welcome and opening remarks

Rijk van Dijk (African Studies Centre, Leyden)
Ruth Prince (Centre for African Studies, Cambridge)

Niels Kastfelt (Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen)

9.45 – 12.15 Session 1. The use of tradition and Christianity, past and present

Chair: Rijk van Dijk (African Studies Centre, Leyden)

9.45 – 10.05  Victor Igreja (NIAS, The Netherlands)
The unintended consequences of the influence of African traditions on Christian Religions: Preventive Practices against Fatal Diseases in Gorongosa

10.05 – 10.25  Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin)
HIV/AIDS and the “FBOisation” of Pentecostal churches in Uganda

10.25 – 10.45 Hansjoerg Dilger (Free University, Berlin)
Tradition in Disguise: Contesting the Past and the Present in Neo-Pentecostal Healing in Urban Tanzania

10.45 – 11.15 COFFEE

11.15 – 12.15 Discussion

12.15 – 13.00 Session 2. History of religious engagements with AIDS

Chair: Ruth Prince (Centre for African Studies, Cambridge)

12.15 – 12.35 Philippe Denis (Sinomlando Centre, University of KwaZulu Natal)
AIDS and religion in an historical perspective

12.35 – 13.00 Discussion

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13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
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14.00 – 15.20 Session 3. Pentecostalism and HIV/AIDS

Chair: Philippe Denis (Sinomlando Centre, University of KwaZulu Natal)

14.00 – 14.20  Eliot Tofa (University of Swaziland)
Combating HIV/AIDS: A Case of New Religious Movements in Swaziland.

14.20 – 14.40  Daniel Jordan Smith (Brown University, USA)

Winners, Overcomers and Prayer Warriors: Pentecostal Christianity and HIV/AIDS in Southeastern Nigeria

14.40 – 15.20 Discussion

15.20 – 15.50 COFFEE

15.50 – 17.10  Session 4. Religion, ritual, HIV/AIDS and education