Death in a church of life
Subtitle: moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs
By: Frederick Klaits.
Series: The anthropology of Christianity
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780520259652; 9780520259669
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of -- Botswana; AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church work with the sick -- Botswana
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith; title: Whose child?; title: "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality; title: "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith; title: "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities; title: "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying; title: "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death; title: Conclusion: Putting love into words.