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AIDS and religious practice in Africa
Felicitas Becker and Wenzel P. Geissler
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Frontmatter
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Introduction: Searching for Pathways in a Landscape of Death: Religion and AIDS in Africa (Felicitas Becker & P. Wenzel Geissler, page 1)
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NEW DEPARTURES IN CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS OF LONG STANDING
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The Rise of Occult Powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda (Heike Behrend, page 29)
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Christian Salvation and Luo Tradition: Arguments of Faith in a Time of Death in Western Kenya (Ruth Prince, page 49)
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The New Wives of Christ: Paradoxes and Potentials in the Remaking of Widow Lives in Uganda (Catrine Christiansen, page 85)
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CONVERGENCES AND CONTRASTS IN MUSLIMS' RESPONSES
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AIDS and the Power of God: Narratives of Decline and Coping Strategies in Zanzibar (Nadine Beckmann, page 119)
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Competing Explanations and Treatment Choices: Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania (Felicitas Becker, page 155)
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'Muslims Have Instructions': HIV/AIDS, Modernity and Islamic Religious Education in Kisumu, Kenya (Jonas Svensson, page 189)
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PENTECOSTAL CONGREGATIONS BETWEEN FAITH HEALING AND CONDEMNATION
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'Keeping Up Appearances': Sex and Religion amongst University Students in Uganda (Jo Sadgrove, page 223)
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Healing the Wounds of Modernity: Salvation, Community and Care in a Neo-Pentecostal Church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Hansjörg Dilger, page 255)
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Gloves in Times of AIDS: Pentecostalism, Hair and Social Distancing in Botswana (Rijk van Dijk, page 283)
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ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT: FAILURES AND RESPONSES
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Leprosy of a Deadlier Kind: Christian Conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld (Isak Niehaus, page 309)
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Subjects of Counselling: Religion, HIV/AIDS and the Management of Everyday Life in South Africa (Marian Burchardt, page 333)
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Therapeutic Evangelism-Confessional Technologies, Antiretrovirals and Biospiritual Transformation in the Fight against AIDS in West Africa (Vinh-Kim Nguyen, page 359)
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Conclusion (John Lonsdale, page 379)
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Notes on Contributors (page 385)
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Index (page 389)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JRelA | 41.1 (2011): 124-127 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41306032 |
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Brill
- 9789004164000 (hardcover)
- 9789047442691 (ebook)