1. AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America (Book).
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Beeston, Rob, Plummer, Ken, Menrath, Stefanie, Azarian, Reza, Shilling, Chris, Fowler, Bridget, and Edgell, Stephen
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AIDS , *NONFICTION - Abstract
This is not a book about AIDS, it is a book about responses to AIDS (p. 1). It charts religious metaphors of judgement, compassion, healing, isolation, and threat. It takes the body-positives of each of these as metaphors for specific religious-bodies. It brings rituals of purity and danger (Douglas) together with the nomisation of death, disease and deviancy (Berger), and confers them upon metaphors of the AIDS-body (Sontag). The question asked is of AIDS as a symbol for socio-religious order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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