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Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS

Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Frederick Klaits

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Hardback. New. Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos.
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  • Title Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS
  • Author Frederick Klaits
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2010-02-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520259652
  • ISBN 9780520259652 / 0520259653
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects -, AIDS (Disease) - Patients - Pastoral
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009009151
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.832

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From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

"Klaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness."--Matthew Engelke, author of A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church

"The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'."--Richard Werbner, author of Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family

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Citations

  • Books & Culture, 05/01/2014, Page 18
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 02/19/2010, Page 17

About the author

Frederick Klaits, a cultural anthropologist, teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.