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Selected Readings

Titles Available in the Nicholson Library

General information about the Pandemic:

  • The Skeptic’s Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis: Tough Questions, Direct Answers by Dale Hanson Bourke
  • The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time by Greg Behrman
  • The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Brett Grodeck
  • Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

Biographies/Novels:

  • Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with AIDS by Rosemary Bailey
  • Sarah’s Song: A True Story of Love and Courage by Janice Burns
  • The Plague by Albert Camus (not directly about AIDS)

Church’s Early Stages in the Struggle with AIDS:

  • The Church with AIDS: Renewal in the Midst of Crisis edited by Letty Russell
  • Embracing the Chaos: Theological Responses to AIDS edited by James Woodward

Recent Books to the Church in the Struggle with AIDS:

  • When God’s People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics by Maria Cimperman
  • Grant Me Justice!: HIV/AIDS and Gender Readings of the Bible by Musa Dube and Musimbi Kanyoro
  • Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention edited by James F. Keenan, S.J. et al.
  • Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis by Donald Messer

Black Racial Oppression and the Church:

  • Building King’s Beloved Community: Foundations for Pastoral Care and Counseling with the Oppressed by Donald Chinula
  • God of the Oppressed by James Cone
  • Black Sexuality and the Church by Kelly Brown Douglas
  • What’s Faith God to Do with It: Black Bodies/Christian Souls by Kelly Brown Douglas
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
  • Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by James Washington
  • Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West
  • Race Matters by Cornel West

Post-Colonial African Literature:

  • Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The River Between by Ngugi Wa' Thinongo
  • Song of Lawino by Okot p' Bitek
  • Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
  • No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
  • Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
More information on African authors

Applicable Theologies:

  • God of the Oppressed by James Cone (Black Liberation Theology)
  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer (Anthropology)
  • The God of Life by Gustavo Gutierrez (South American Liberation Theology)
  • On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent by Gustavo Gutierrez (S. American Liberation Theology)
  • God and Human Suffering by Douglas John Hall
  • Models of God by Sallie McFague (Feminist Theology)
  • The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen (Pastoral Theology)
  • African Women, Religion, and Health edited by Isabel Phiri and Sarojini Nadar (African Women’s Theologies)
  • On Earth as in Heaven by Dorothee Soelle (White Liberation Theology/Political Theology)
  • Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman (pre-Black Liberation Theology)
  • A Troubling in My Soul edited by Emelie Townes (Womanist Theology)

Titles Not Available in the Nicholson Library

  • Last Served? Gendering the HIV Pandemic by Cindy Patton
  • Inventing AIDS by Cindy Patton
  • Globalizing AIDS by Cindy Patton
  • Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS by Simon Watney
  • AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
  • Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and the Crisis of AIDS by Elias K. Bongmba
  • 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
  • African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Y. Mitchem
  • On Communitarian Divinity: An African Interpretation of the Trinity by A.Okechukwu Ogbonnaya
  • The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some