Faith in the Time of AIDS

Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

Paperback Engels 2017 9781349560592
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This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.

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ISBN13:9781349560592
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Introduction<br>1. HIV/AIDS and Christian Engagements in Africa: Towards a Cultural Sociology of Social Technologies<br>2. The Global and the Local: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Faith-based Organizations<br>3. A Moral Science of Sex<br>4. Having Sex, Making Love<br>5. Biographical Becoming: Life Projects<br>6. Helping Themselves: Religious AIDS Activism in Support Groups<br>Conclusions

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