Faith in the Time of AIDS

Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

Marian Burchardt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-56059-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Marian Burchardt is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. His research focuses on cultural diversity, globalization, and religion. His work appered in Comparative Sociology, International Sociology, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Journal of Religion in Africa.

Introduction
1. HIV/AIDS and Christian Engagements in Africa: Towards a Cultural Sociology of Social Technologies
2. The Global and the Local: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Faith-based Organizations
3. A Moral Science of Sex
4. Having Sex, Making Love
5. Biographical Becoming: Life Projects
6. Helping Themselves: Religious AIDS Activism in Support Groups
Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Non-Governmental Public Action
Zusatzinfo	XI, 216 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Anthropology • biomedicine • Development • Globalization • HIV/Aids • humanitarianism • NGOs • Religion • Sexuality • Sociology • South Africa
ISBN-10	1-349-56059-6 / 1349560596
ISBN-13	978-1-349-56059-2 / 9781349560592
Zustand	Neuware