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Death in a Church of Life

Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS

  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 15 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm

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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.
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  • Title

    Death in a Church of Life

  • Author

    Frederick Klaits

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

  • Published

    February 2010

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    368

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520259669

  • ISBN-10

    0520259661

  • Eden Code

    2641570