DEATH IN A CHURCH OF LIFE by Frederick Klaits ( 9780520259669 )

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Title:

DEATH IN A CHURCH OF LIFE
MORAL PASSION DURING BOTSWANA'S TIME OF AIDS

By:

Frederick Klaits

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0520259661

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9780520259669

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 February, 2010

Series:

The Anthropology of Christianity 8

Pages:

368

Description:

Explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book shows how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving relationships amid widespread illness and death. It helps discover the Baitshepi's maternal ethos.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

4 line illustrations, 2 maps

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University of California Press

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