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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Felicitas Becker and Wenzel P. Geissler
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  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: Searching for Pathways in a Landscape of Death: Religion and AIDS in Africa (Felicitas Becker & P. Wenzel Geissler, page 1)
  • NEW DEPARTURES IN CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS OF LONG STANDING
    • The Rise of Occult Powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda (Heike Behrend, page 29)
    • Christian Salvation and Luo Tradition: Arguments of Faith in a Time of Death in Western Kenya (Ruth Prince, page 49)
    • The New Wives of Christ: Paradoxes and Potentials in the Remaking of Widow Lives in Uganda (Catrine Christiansen, page 85)
  • CONVERGENCES AND CONTRASTS IN MUSLIMS' RESPONSES
    • AIDS and the Power of God: Narratives of Decline and Coping Strategies in Zanzibar (Nadine Beckmann, page 119)
    • Competing Explanations and Treatment Choices: Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania (Felicitas Becker, page 155)
    • 'Muslims Have Instructions': HIV/AIDS, Modernity and Islamic Religious Education in Kisumu, Kenya (Jonas Svensson, page 189)
  • PENTECOSTAL CONGREGATIONS BETWEEN FAITH HEALING AND CONDEMNATION
    • 'Keeping Up Appearances': Sex and Religion amongst University Students in Uganda (Jo Sadgrove, page 223)
    • Healing the Wounds of Modernity: Salvation, Community and Care in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Hansjörg Dilger, page 255)
    • Gloves in Times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana (Rijk van Dijk, page 283)
  • ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT: FAILURES AND RESPONSES
    • Leprosy of a Deadlier Kind: Christian Conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld (Isak Niehaus, page 309)
    • Subjects of Counselling: Religion, HIV/AIDS and the Management of Everyday Life in South Africa (Marian Burchardt, page 333)
    • Therapeutic Evangelism-Confessional Technologies, Antiretrovirals and Biospiritual Transformation in the Fight against AIDS in West Africa (Vinh-Kim Nguyen, page 359)
  • Conclusion (John Lonsdale, page 379)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 385)
  • Index (page 389)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRelA 41.1 (2011): 124-127 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41306032
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Brill
ISBN(s)
  • 9789004164000 (hardcover)
  • 9789047442691 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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