Faith in the Time of AIDS

Faith in the Time of AIDS
Author: Marian Burchardt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137477776

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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.


Faith in the Time of AIDS
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Marian Burchardt
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-29 - Publisher: Springer

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