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Faith in the Time of AIDS

Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa [Hardback]

by Marian Burchardt

    • Author

      Marian Burchardt

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Palgrave Macmillan

    • Published

      September 2015

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      Faith in the Time of AIDS

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      Product Description

      For a long time, Christians have remained at the margins of social projects around development and humanitarianism in Africa. This was especially true of projects aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS, which was often associated with sin. Drawing on ethnographic explorations in South Africa between 2006 and 2014, this book tells the story of how Christian organizations, practices and narratives have become central for civil society responses to the epidemic. Marian Burchardt shows how Christians have employed globally circulating templates around 'behavioural change' in fields such as sexuality and biomedicine, but also how these templates are renegotiated and subverted when they are adapted to people's needs. Through activism and spiritual notions of life, Christians have not only affected the way people think about relationships and health; by envisioning and promoting activist notions of personhood, unwittingly Christians have also pushed the frontiers of modernity. Taking his inspirations from Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, the author argues that Christian responses to AIDS reveal the dialectics of discipline and liberation inherent in the modern Christian project.

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      • Author

        Marian Burchardt

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Palgrave Macmillan

      • Published

        September 2015

      • Edition

        2015 ed.

      • Weight

        418g

      • Page Count

        232

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 15 mm

      • ISBN

        9781137477767

      • ISBN-10

        1137477768

      • Eden Code

        4361503

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      • Author/Creator: Marian Burchardt

      • ISBN: 9781137477767

      • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

      • Release Date: September 2015

      • Weight: 418g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 15 mm

      • Eden Code: 4361503

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