Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in S...

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
M. Burchardt
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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

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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 (SKU)
9781137477767
Title
Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
Author
M. Burchardt
Edition
1st
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date
2015
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Format Type
Physical
Number of Pages
216
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