Faith in the time of AIDS : religion, biopolitics and modernity in South Africa
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Faith in the time of AIDS : religion, biopolitics and modernity in South Africa
（Non-governmental public action series / series editor, Jude Howell）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of 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
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