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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Contributors: Becker, Felicitas 1971- (Editor) ; Geissler, Paul Wenzel (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2009
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
IxTheo 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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004164006