Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8 by Klaits, Frederick

Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520259669)

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Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8 by Klaits, Frederick

Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8

$34.95
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8 by Klaits, Frederick

Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi's distinctly maternal ethos and the "spiritual" kinship embodied in the church's nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available examples of the church members' preaching and song.

Author: Frederick Klaits
ISBN-10: 0520259661
ISBN-13: 9780520259669
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2010
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d
By Frederick Klaits
By Frederick Klaits
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Frederick Klaits, a cultural anthropologist, teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.

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