Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa by Burchardt, Marian

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137477767)

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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa by Burchardt, Marian

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

$54.99
Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa by Burchardt, Marian

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Marian Burchardt
ISBN-10: 1137477768
ISBN-13: 9781137477767
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2015
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By Marian Burchardt
By Marian Burchardt
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Marian Burchardt is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. His research focuses on cultural diversity, globalization, and religion. His work appered in Comparative Sociology, International Sociology, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Journal of Religion in Africa.

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