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UNINA9910808619603321 |
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Autore |
Leong Pamela |
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Titolo |
Religion, Flesh, and Blood : The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion |
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ISBN |
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0-7391-9443-7 |
0-7391-9442-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity |
HIV infections--Religious aspects--Christianity |
Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity--Case studies |
Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, Los Angeles |
Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity |
HIV infections - Christianity - Religious aspects |
AIDS (Disease) - Christianity - Religious aspects |
African Americans - Religion |
Religion |
Philosophy & Religion |
Christianity |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 The Therapeutic Ethic""; ""2 A Portrait of Unity Fellowship Church""; ""3 Wrestling with Religion and the Rise of Personalized Religion""; ""4 Reconciling Religious Contradictions""; ""5 The Unintended Consequences of Therapeutic Religion""; ""6 Therapeutic Religion and Ambivalence""; ""7 Articulating Limits and Boundaries""; ""8 Lifting Up the Carpet, Opening Doors, and Reintegration""; ""9 Pain, the Truth of Human Feelings, and the Need for Therapeutic Religion""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion |
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that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that characterizes this congregation has enabled some freedoms that are otherwise disallowed in traditional congregations. These new freedoms inadvertently have led to certain excesses, including overtly sexual language and behaviors. But this is not to say that the congregation disregards conventional no |
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