Faith in the time of AIDS : religion, biopolitics, and modernity in South Africa /: religion, biopolitics, and modernity in South Africa. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marian Burchardt, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.
• Other Names: Burchardt, Marian
• Contents: Introduction; 1. HIV/AIDS and Christian Engagements in Africa: Towards a Cultural Sociology of Social Technologies; 2. The Global and the Local: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Faith-based Organizations; 3. A Moral Science of Sex; 4. Having Sex, Making Love; 5. Biographical Becoming: Life Projects; 6. Helping Themselves: Religious AIDS Activism in Support Groups; Conclusions
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages), (8 illustrations)
• Subjects: 261.8/32196979200968; Third World Development; AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; HIV infections -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa; HIV infections -- South Africa; Poverty & Homelessness; HIV / AIDS: social aspects; Non-governmental organizations (NGOs); South Africa -- Church history -- 20th century; South Africa -- Church history -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137477781; 1137477784
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.