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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

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Series: Non-Governmental Public Action

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1349560596
ISBN13: 9781349560592
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 22 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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