Faith in the Time of AIDS

Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

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.

August 2015, ca. 216 Seiten, Non-Governmental Public Action, Englisch
Springer EN
978-1-137-47776-7

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