Death in a Church of Life

Death in a Church of Life
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780520945845
ISBN-13 : 0520945840
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Book Synopsis Death in a Church of Life by : Frederick Klaits

Download or read book Death in a Church of Life written by Frederick Klaits and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 examples of the church members’ preaching and song.


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