Title Death in a church of life : moral passion during Botswana's time of AIDS / Frederick Klaits.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : 4 illustrations, 2 maps.
Series	Anthropology of Christianity ; 8
	Anthropology of Christianity ; 8.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Moral passion in suffering and faith -- Whose child? -- "Go with me to Babylon" : the domestication of inequality -- "Cleansing the spirit" : the bodiliness of sentiment and faith -- "Spirit, follow the voice!" : voice and the making of intersubjectivities -- "It is all right as long as we feel sorrow" : care for and by the dying -- "You must not look back" : civility in the place of death -- Conclusion: Putting love into words.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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.
Subject	AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of -- Botswana.
	AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Church work with the sick -- Botswana.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
	AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of. (OCoLC)fst00793891
	AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00793936
	Church work with the sick. (OCoLC)fst00861120
	Botswana. (OCoLC)fst01205793
	AIDS.
	HIV.
	Religieuze aspecten.
	Pastoraal concilie.
	Botswana.
Other Form:	Print version: Klaits, F. (Frederick). Death in a church of life. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520259652 (DLC) 2009009151 (OCoLC)317622534
ISBN	9780520945845 (electronic bk.)
	0520945840 (electronic bk.)
	9780520946699 (electronic bk.)
	0520946693 (electronic bk.)

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