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| Title: | Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa |
| Author: | Burchardt, Marian |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 216 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | United Kingdom |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9781349560592; 9781137477767 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | AIDS religion Christianity |
| Abstract: | 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. |
