Death in a Church of Life
Frederick Klaits
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University of California Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Christentum
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
church, modern history, anthropology, apostolic congregation, spirituality and faith, faith and religion, preaching, ethnographers, therapeutic substances, discussion books, baitshepi church, moral passion, anthropology sociology, fieldwork, christianity, human relationships, power of god, fellowship, life and death, illness and death, botswana, aids, hymns, aids crisis, prayer, christian faith, spiritual kinship, ethnography, hiv, christian nonfiction, power of prayer