Death in a Church of Life
Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of Aids
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19908232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Klaits (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Death in a Church of Life (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520945845 |
| OpenAlex | W3196861907 |
| Open Library | OL29585033M |
| ISBN | 9780520945845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
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
Art · History · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development · AIDS (Disease) · Aids (disease), patients · Aids (disease), religious aspects · Church work with the sick · Pastoral counseling · Religious aspects
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic
Generational inversions
Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi
Children's Roles in Tuberculosis Treatment Regimes
In Search of Gender Justice
Faith and the Intersubjectivity of Care in Botswana
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley
Living, dying, after death
Affective Routes of Healing
Religious Sophistication in African Pentecostalism
The Sites of Divine Encounter
Seeking the Wounds of the Gift
Emotions as Affective Trajectories of Belief in Mwari (God) among Masowe Apostles in Urban Zimbabwe
“Here, Here Is a Place Where I Can Cry”
“Those Who Pray Together”
Men of Love
Affective Trajectories in Religious African Cityscapes
The Cleansing Touch
We can only be healthy if we love ourselves
Fragility, fluidity, and resilience
Discipline (and Lenience) Beyond the Self
Pneumatological Challenges to Postcolonial Lutheran Mission in the Tswana Context
Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of Aids
Dialogical subjectivities for hard times
Afterword
His mother became medicine
The Pentecostal prosperity gospel in Nigeria
Between Ontological Transformation and the Imagination of Tradition
Relatedness and care in Southern Africa and beyond
The drama of de-orphaning
Telling Families, Telling Aids
Political aesthetics and embodiment
Care in the Context of a Chronic Epidemic
Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
Compassion technology
We are seeing things
Ethics of life in the context of death
Singing Politics
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |