Faith in the Time of AIDS [electronic resource] : Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa /
Burchardt, Marian.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
HIV/AIDS and Christian engagements in Africa: towards a cultural sociology of social technologies -- The global and the local: transnational connections and the rise of faith-based organizations -- A moral science of sex -- Having sex, making love -- Biographical becoming: life projects -- Helping themselves: religious aids activism in support groups.
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.
Social medicine.
Poverty.
Africa—Politics and government.
Social service.
Religion and sociology.
Economic development.
Medical Sociology.
Development Aid.
African Politics.
Social Work and Community Development.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Development Studies.