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UNINA9911090136103321 |
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Autore |
Klaits F (Frederick) |
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Titolo |
Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs / / Frederick Klaits |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786612453441 |
9781282453449 |
1282453440 |
9780520945845 |
0520945840 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Collana |
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The anthropology of Christianity |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) - Patients - Pastoral counseling of - Botswana |
AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Church work with the sick - Botswana |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pronunciation and Orthography -- Introduction: Moral Passion in Suffering and Faith -- One. Whose Child? -- Two. "Go with Me to Babylon" . The Domestication of Inequality -- Three. "Cleansing the Spirit". The Bodiliness of Sentiment and Faith -- Four. "Spirit, Follow the Voice!". Voice and the Making of Intersubjectivities -- Five. "It Is All Right as Long as We Feel Sorrow". Care for and by the Dying -- Six. "You Must Not Look Back". Civility in the Place of Death -- Conclusion. Putting Love into Words -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi's distinctly maternal ethos and the "spiritual" |
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