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The continuing challenge of AIDS, clergy responses to patients, friends, and families, Robert E. Beckley and Jerome R. Koch

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The continuing challenge of AIDS

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Robert E. Beckley and Jerome R. Koch

clergy responses to patients, friends, and families

As the AIDS crisis spread and gained momentum, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish clergy in the United States and the United Kingdom became involved in sometimes surprising ways. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the early 1990s and from follow-up interviews conducted later in the decade, the authors show that many clergy became involved in the pastoral care for and counseling of people stigmatized by AIDS, including gay and bisexual men, despite expressions of antipathy from their denominations. Sociological theories concerning clergy roles, social movements, social space, and social

Preface; 1. The Churches and AIDS; 2. American Clergy's Responses to People with AIDS: 1987-1991; 3. American Clergy's Strategies for Pastoral Care for People with AIDS; 4. British Clergy and People with AIDS: A Comparative Perspective; 5. The Clergy's Continuing Involvement with People with AIDS/HIV between 1993 and 1996: The Second Phase of Questionnaires; 6. The Clergy's Continuing Involvement with People with AIDS/HIV between 1993 and 1999: The Follow-Up Interviews; 7. The Continuing Challenge of AIDS for the Churches and Clergy; Appendix A: The Methods Used in This Study