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Death in a Church of Life

Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS

by Frederick Klaits

  • Hardback
  • 368 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

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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 and the 'spiritual' kinship embodied in the church's nurturing fellowship practice. Klaits shows that for Baitshepi members, Christian faith is a form of moral passion that counters practices of divination and witchcraft with redemptive hymn singing, prayer, and the use of therapeutic substances. An online audio annex makes available the examples of the church members' preachings and songs.
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  • Author

    Frederick Klaits

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

  • Published

    February 2010

  • Weight

    713g

  • Page Count

    368

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520259652

  • ISBN-10

    0520259653

  • Eden Code

    2641569

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