Faith in the Time of AIDS

Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

• Author(s): Marian Burchardt,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 1349560596
  ISBN_13: 9781349560592
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Disease & Health Issues , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Political Science / World / African , Social Science / Social Work , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / General ,

Description:... 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.