Parallel discourses : religious identity and HIV prevention in Botswana / by Kipton E. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Kipton E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Botswana--Prevention.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Religious aspects--Botswana.

HIV infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animated by the belief that public health programs in Botswana, or other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, would be more effective if those who designed and implemented them possessed a better understanding of existing ethno-medical as well as religious beliefs and cultural practices, Parallel Discourses provides a revised topology of religious identity in Botswana and then shows why it is important to disaggregate or otherwise distinguish between diverse faith-based communities - from traditional...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; PREAMBLE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX; ENDNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references ( p. [123]-132).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-48634-1

9786613581327

1-4438-3725-3

OCLC:

827209302