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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