Beyond Faith-Based Organizations: Using Comparative Institutional Ethnography to Understand Religious Responses to HIV and AIDS in Brazil

作者：Munoz Laboy Miguel A^*; Murray Laura; Wittlin Natalie; Garcia Jonathan; Terto Veriano Jr; Parker Richard G

来源：American Journal of Public Health, 2011, 101(6): 972-978.

DOI：10.2105/AJPH.2010.300081

Religious institutions, which contribute to understanding of and mobilization in response to illness, play a major role in structuring social, political, and cultural responses to HIV and AIDS. We used institutional ethnography to explore how religious traditions-Catholic, Evangelical, and Afro-Brazilian in Brazil have influenced HIV prevention, treatment, and care at the local and national levels overtime.
We present a typology of Brazil's division of labor and uncover overlapping foci grounded in religious ideology and tradition: care of people living with HIV among Catholics and Afro-Brazilians, abstinence education among Catholics and Evangelicals, prevention within marginalized communities among Evangelicals and Afro-Brazilians, and access to treatment among all traditions.
We conclude that institutional ethnography, which allows for multilevel and interlevel analysis, is a useful methodology. (Am J Public Health. 2011;101:972-978. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2010.300081)

• 出版日期2011-6