Death in a church of life

Klaits, F.

Death in a church of life moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDS / [electronic resource] : Frederick Klaits. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 352 p.) : 4 ill., 2 maps. - Anthropology of Christianity ; 8 . - Anthropology of Christianity ; 8. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith -- Whose child? -- "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality -- "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith -- "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities -- "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying -- "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death -- Conclusion: Putting love into words.

9780520945845 (electronic bk.) 0520945840 (electronic bk.)


AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Pastoral counseling of--Botswana.
AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church work with the sick--Botswana.


Electronic books.

BV4460.7 / .K53 2010eb

261.8/3219697920096883