Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa (Non-Governmental Public Action)

by Marian Burchardt (Author), Marian Burchardt (Author)

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  Paperback
  2017

  $56.07

  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.