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Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDS /

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 discove...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klaits, F. (Frederick)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Colección:Anthropology of Christianity ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith
  • Whose child?
  • "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality
  • "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith
  • "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities
  • "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying
  • "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death
  • Conclusion: Putting love into words.