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Explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. This title examines the social production, and productivity, of AIDS, linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and relig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Becker, Felicitas, 1971- (Editor ), Geissler, Wenzel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Studies on religion in Africa ; 36.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Africa > Religious aspects.
AIDS (Disease)
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Religion and Medicine
Sida > Afrique > Aspect religieux.
Sida.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
Medicine > Religious aspects
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects
Religion
Aids
Africa.
Africa
Afrique.
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. This title examines the social production, and productivity, of AIDS, linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 404 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047442691
9047442695
ISSN:0169-9814 ;

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