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Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs / Frederick Klaits.
LIBRA BV4460.7 .K53 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klaits, F. (Frederick)
- Series:
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 8.
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Pastoral counseling of--Botswana.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Church work with the sick--Botswana.
- Church work with the sick.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Pastoral counseling of.
- Botswana.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 352 pages : illustrations, 2 maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith
- Whose child?
- "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality
- "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith
- "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities
- "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying
- "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death
- Conclusion: Putting love into words.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520259652
- 0520259653
- 9780520259669
- 0520259661
- OCLC:
- 317622534
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