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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.
216 pages, XI, 216 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 22, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349560592 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 218 × 144 × 14 mm · 302 g |
| Language | English |
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