Felicitas Becker
Felicitas Becker (born 1971 in Erlangen) is a German historian, currently a Professor of African History at the University of Ghent. She worked from 2010 till 2016 at the University of Cambridge, where she was also Fellow of Peterhouse. She works on AIDS, slavery and the state of Islam in East Africa, especially Tanzania.Becker's work has been supported by grants from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the European Research Council. She won the Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History at Cambridge University.
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa /
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This volume explores how AIDS is understood, confronted and lived with through religious ideas and practices, and how these, in turn, are reinterpreted and changed by the experience of AIDS. Examining the social production, and productivity, of AIDS - linking bodily and spiritual experiences, and religious, medical, political and economic discourses - the papers counter simplified notions of causal effects of AIDS on religion (or vice versa). Instead, they display people's resourcefulness in their struggle to move ahead in spite of adversity. This relativises the vision of doom widely associated with the African AIDS epidemic; and it allows to see AIDS, instead of a singular event, as the culmination of a century-long process of changing livelihoods, bodily well-being and spiritual imaginaries.
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