Faith In The Time Of Aids: Religion, Biopolitics And Modernity In South Africa (Non-Governmental Public Action)

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.

• | Author: Marian Burchardt
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 227 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137477768
• | ISBN-13: 9781137477767