Introduction - The redemptive moment: HIV treatments and the production of new religious spaces

African Journal of AIDS Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-383

  Dilger, Hansjörg ^a   Burchardt, Marian ^b   Van Dijk, Rijk ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CHRISTIAN; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOSLEM; NONHUMAN; RELIGION; REVIEW; SEXUALITY;

EID: 79952657354     PISSN: 16085906     EISSN: 17279445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2010.545643     Document Type: Review

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