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Title:
AIDS and religious practice in Africa / edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
vi, 404 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
AIDS (Disease)--Africa--Religious aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--Africa.
Religion and Medicine--Africa.
Other Authors:
Becker, Felicitas, 1971-
Geissler, Wenzel.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
Series:
Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; v. 36
ISBN:
9004164006 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004164000 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008049236
Locations:
OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)

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