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Death in a Church of Life - Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (Paperback, New)
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Death in a Church of Life - Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS (Paperback, New)
Series: The Anthropology of Christianity, 8
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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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