Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs /

Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klaits, F. (Frederick)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
Series:Anthropology of Christianity ; 8.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Pastoral counseling of > Botswana.
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Church work with the sick > Botswana.
Table of 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.