03619nam 2200673Ia 450 991115149950332120251117082127.09786612453441978128245344912824534409780520945845052094584010.1525/9780520945845(CKB)2550000000002121(EBL)496565(OCoLC)609859486(SSID)ssj0000336533(PQKBManifestationID)11285783(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336533(PQKBWorkID)10281935(PQKB)11259349(DE-B1597)520806(OCoLC)558856932(DE-B1597)9780520945845(MiAaPQ)EBC496565(Perlego)550764(EXLCZ)99255000000000212120090327d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeath in a church of life moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs /Frederick Klaits1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (369 pages)The anthropology of ChristianityDescription based upon print version of record.9780520259652 0520259653 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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" kinship embodied in the church's nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available examples of the church members' preaching and song.Anthropology of Christianity.AIDS (Disease)PatientsPastoral counseling ofBotswanaAIDS (Disease)Religious aspectsChristianityChurch work with the sickBotswanaAIDS (Disease)PatientsPastoral counseling ofAIDS (Disease)Religious aspectsChristianity.Church work with the sick261.8/3219697920096883Klaits F(Frederick)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911151499503321UNINA