Faith in the Time of AIDS
Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa| By: | Marian Burchardt |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137477767 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137477774 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.