Death in a Church of Life - Moral Passion During Botswanas Time of Aids

Zusatztext "A long-awaited contribution from one of the most insightful researchers in the field . . . it does not disappoint." Informationen zum Autor Frederick Klaits ! a cultural anthropologist! teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Klappentext "Klaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS! but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness."-Matthew Engelke! author of A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church "The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct! clear! humane! and jargon-free voice! and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'."-Richard Werbner! author of Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family Zusammenfassung Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos.

Product details

• Authors: F. Klaits, Frederick Klaits, Klaits Frederick
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2010
• EAN: 9780520259652
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25965-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: The Anthropology of Christianity; The Anthropology of Christianity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Religion & beliefs