title: An appointment with god: AIDS, place, and spirituality.
abstract: This article describes how an African American gay man living with AIDS used his spiritual, religious, and cultural strengths to resist internalized dislocation because of heterosexism and homophobia. He was able to experience a relocation of God from places that rejected him to places that were conducive to his healing. By using these strengths, he was able to reject his physician's prediction of death and to call on God in response to an end-stage AIDS crisis. The development of spiritual agency is addressed.
authors.affiliation: University at Albany State University of New York, Richardson Hall, Room 214, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA. rmiller@albany.edu
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods; D029181:Spirituality