Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

by Marian Burchardt

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137477768
• ISBN13: 9781137477767
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"