Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8

by Frederick Klaits

Book Overview

This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. Over the course of long-term fieldwork, Frederick Klaits discovered Baitshepi's distinctly maternal ethos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259653
• ISBN13: 9780520259652
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"