Death in A Church of Life - Moral Passion During Botswana′s Time of AIDS

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-25966-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: The Anthropology of Christianity

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 examples of the church members’ preaching and song.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klaits, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Klaits, a cultural anthropologist, teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.