AIDS and religious practice in Africa
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies on religion in Africa ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.