Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8)
Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8)  Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8) 

Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8)

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Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8)

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” 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.
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Binding Paperback
Brand University of California Press
EANs 9780520259669
ItemPartNumber 9780520259669
Manufacturer University of California Press
ProductGroup Book
ReleaseDate 2010-02-08T00:00:01Z
Title Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (The Anthropology of Christianity) (Volume 8)
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