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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
407

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Cover of: AIDS and religious practice in Africa
AIDS and religious practice in Africa
2009, Brill
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2009, Ebsco Publishing
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Table of Contents

The rise of occult powers, AIDS, and the Roman Catholic
Church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend
Salvation and tradition: configurations of faith in a time of death / 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 ARV in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker
'Muslims have instructions': HIV/AIDS and Islamic reformism in the context of 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 / Hansjorg 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Studies of religion in Africa -- 36, Studies on religion in Africa -- 36.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/97920096
Library of Congress
RA643.86.A35 A343 2009, RA643.86.A35A343

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
407

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Open Library
OL22685264M
Internet Archive
aidsreligiouspra00beck
ISBN 13
9789004164000
LCCN
2008049236
OCLC/WorldCat
276274609
Goodreads
7248214

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