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Death in a Church of Life Frederick Klaits

Death in a Church of Life By Frederick Klaits

Death in a Church of Life by Frederick Klaits


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Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos.

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Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS by Frederick Klaits

This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. "Death in a Church of Life" paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi's distinctly maternal ethos and the 'spiritual' kinship embodied in the church's nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available the examples of the church members' preachings and songs.

Death in a Church of Life Reviews

"This book is a valuable contribution to the study of HIV/AIDS... I would highly recommend it to anyone." Easa "This [book] will provoke new, creative, and sustainable ways of designing and implementing AIDS prevention and treatment policies." Journal Royal Anthro Inst "The [book] is rich and detailed, both meticulous and expansive." Somatosphere "A long-awaited contribution from one of the most insightful researchers in the field ... it does not disappoint." American Ethnologist

About Frederick Klaits

Frederick Klaits, a cultural anthropologist, teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.

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CIN0520259661G
9780520259669
0520259661
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS by Frederick Klaits
Used - Good
Paperback
University of California Press
2010-02-08
368
N/A
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