Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/YzxNj4Y Death in a Church of Life Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS By: Frederick Klaits Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520259669, 0520259661 eText ISBN: 9780520945845, 0520945840 Edition: 1st Pages: 368 Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780520945845 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. Additional ISBNs 9780520259652, 0520259653
