AIDS and religious practice in Africa
By: edited by Felicitas Becker and Wenzel Geissler.
Contributors: Becker, Felicitas, 1971-; Geissler, Wenzel.
Series: Studies of religion in Africa -- 36; Studies on religion in Africa -- 36.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9789004164000
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- Religious aspects; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Africa; Religion and Medicine -- Africa
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of occult powers, AIDS, and the Roman Catholic; title: Church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend; title: Salvation and tradition: configurations of faith in a time of death / Ruth Prince; title: The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen; title: AIDS and the power of god narratives of decline and coping; title: Strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann; title: Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS, and ARV in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker; title: 'Muslims have instructions': HIV/AIDS and Islamic reformism in the context of Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson; title: 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove; title: Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjorg Dilger; title: Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair, and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk; title: Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS; title: In the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus; title: Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS, and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt; title: Therapeutic evangelism-confessional technologies, antiretrovirals, and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.