ISBN:
9789004164000
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9004164006
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 404 S.
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Ill.
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Ill.
Series Statement:
Studies of religion in Africa Vol. 36
Series Statement:
Studies of religion in Africa
DDC:
362.196/97920096
Keywords:
AIDS (Disease)
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AIDS (Disease) Religious aspects
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Religion and Medicine
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Afrika
;
Aids
;
Religion
Abstract:
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 / Hansjörg 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The rise of occult powers, AIDS, and the Roman Catholic ; Church in western Uganda
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Salvation and tradition: configurations of faith in a time of death
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The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda
,
AIDS and the power of god narratives of decline and coping ; Strategies in Zanzibar
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Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS, and ARV in Tanzania
,
'Muslims have instructions': HIV/AIDS and Islamic reformism in the context of Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya
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'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda
,
Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
,
Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair, and social distancing in Botswana
,
Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS ; In the South African Lowveld
,
Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS, and the management of everyday life in South Africa
,
Therapeutic evangelism-confessional technologies, antiretrovirals, and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25641
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25641
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