Aids and religious practice in Africa
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 Ugan...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2009
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| In: |
Studies of religion in Africa (36)
Year: 2009 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of religion in Africa
36 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ AIDS
/ Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B AIDS (Disease) Religious aspects B Religion and Medicine (Africa) B AIDS (Disease) (Africa) B Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Africa) |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | VI, 404 S., Ill., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-16400-0 90-04-16400-6 |
