Healing the wounds of modernity: Salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Journal of Religion in Africa

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-83

  Dilger, Hansjörg ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Healing; HIV AIDS; Modernity; Pentecostalism; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349026032     PISSN: 00224200     EISSN: 15700666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006607X166591     Document Type: Review

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