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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa - Non-Governmental Public Action Marian Burchardt 1st ed. 2015 edition
Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa - Non-Governmental Public Action
Marian Burchardt
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.
232 pages, 8 colour illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 31, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781137477767 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 146 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |