AIDS and religious practice in Africa /
AIDS and religious practice in Africa /
edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- vi, 404 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Studies of religion in Africa, v. 36 0169-9814 ; .
- Studies on religion in Africa ; 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Hansj|rg 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.
9789004164000 (hardback : alk. paper)
2008049236
GBA8D7446 bnb
101489579 DNLM 014845850 Uk B0903441 bccb
AIDS (Disease)--Africa.
AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--Africa.
Religion and Medicine--Africa.
RA643.86.A35 / A343 2009
HIV 362.1969 Aid 2009
WC 503.7 / A2868 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Hansj|rg 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.
9789004164000 (hardback : alk. paper)
2008049236
GBA8D7446 bnb
101489579 DNLM 014845850 Uk B0903441 bccb
AIDS (Disease)--Africa.
AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--Africa.
Religion and Medicine--Africa.
RA643.86.A35 / A343 2009
HIV 362.1969 Aid 2009
WC 503.7 / A2868 2009