{"product_id":"death-in-a-church-of-life-moral-passion-during-botswanas-time-of-aids-volume-8-paperback-1","title":"Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion During Botswana's Time of AIDS Volume 8 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederick Klaits\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana's HIV\/AIDS pandemic. \u003ci\u003eDeath in a Church of Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness.--Matthew Engelke, author of \u003ci\u003eA Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'.--Richard Werbner, author of \u003ci\u003eTears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness.--Matthew Engelke, author of \u003ci\u003eA Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'.\"--Richard Werbner, author of \u003ci\u003eTears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Klaits\u003c\/b\u003e, a cultural anthropologist, teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42570915774560,"sku":"9780520259669","price":82.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/bFlEVzNKcC9NbFkvaEJEakVhTHlXQT09.webp?v=1770702915","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/death-in-a-church-of-life-moral-passion-during-botswanas-time-of-aids-volume-8-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}