Ebook: Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
Author: Marian Burchardt (auth.)
- Tags: Medical Sociology, Poverty Aid and Development, African Politics, Social Work and Community Development, Social Aspects of Religion, Development Studies
- Series: Non-Governmental Public Action Series
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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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