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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781137477767
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216321354
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Work
Author
Marian Burchardt
Publication Name
Faith in the Time of Aids: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa