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Author Klaits, F. (Frederick)

Title Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDS / Frederick Klaits.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : 4 illustrations, 2 maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Anthropology of Christianity ; 8
Anthropology of Christianity ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith -- Whose child? -- "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality -- "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith -- "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities -- "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying -- "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death -- Conclusion: Putting love into words.
Summary Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos.
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Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of -- Botswana.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of.
Botswana.
AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church work with the sick -- Botswana.
Church work with the sick.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Klaits, F. (Frederick). Death in a church of life. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520259652 (DLC) 2009009151 (OCoLC)317622534
ISBN 9780520945845 (electronic book)
0520945840 (electronic book)
9780520946699 (electronic book)
0520946693 (electronic book)
1282453440
9781282453449
9780520259652 (alkaline paper)
9780520259669 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520259661
0520259653