AIDS and religious practice in Africa /

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Other Authors: Becker, Felicitas, 1971-, Geissler, Wenzel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 36.
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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.