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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa

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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa - Burchardt, Marian
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This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity.

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Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa 2017, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781349560592

2015 edition

Trade paperback

Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics, and Modernity in South Africa 2015, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781137477767

2015 edition

Hardcover