Faith in the Time of AIDS
Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa
Marian Burchardt
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This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.
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NGOs, anthropology, sexuality, organization, biomedicine, religion, HIV/AIDS, Engagement, knowledge, Moral, Sex, Nation, morality, humanitarianism, AIDS, South Africa, sociology, Transnational, globalization, development