03061nam a2200457Ia 4500 ocn593315122 OCoLC 20200709055244.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 100402s2009 ne a sb 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9789047442691 (electronic bk.) 9047442695 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)593315122 312580 (N$T) f------ RA643.86.A35 A343 2009eb 2009 M-187 WC 503.7 A2868 2009 362.196/97920096 22 N$TA AIDS and religious practice in Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Felicitas Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. 1 online resource (vi, 404 p.) : ill. Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; v. 36 Includes bibliographical references and index. The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen. Description based on print version record. AIDS (Disease) Africa Religious aspects. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Africa. Religion and Medicine Africa. Electronic books. Becker, Felicitas, 1971- Geissler, Wenzel. Print version: AIDS and religious practice in Africa. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004164000 (DLC) 2008049236 (OCoLC)276274609 Studies on religion in Africa ; 36. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=312580 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 49774 49774