spirit and healing in africa - University of the Free State

3.1 MODERN MISSIONARY MOVEMENT 70
3.2 CHRISTIAN MEDICINE 71
3.2.1 Illness 72
3.2.2 Treatment 75
3.3 TRANSFORMING POWER 79
3.3.1 Disciplinary power 79
3.3.2 Body 80
3.3.3 The gaze technique 81
3.3.4 Disciplinary power and transformation 81
3.4 MISSIONARY MEDICINE’S POWER REGIME REVISITED 85
3.5 TRANSFORMATION 87
3.5.1 Spiritual transformation 87
3.5.2 Bodily transformation 88
3.5.3 Transformation without superiority 91
3.6 CONCLUSIONS 92
CHAPTER 4. DISCOURSE ON HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 94
4.1 DISCOURSE ON HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 95
4.1.1 History of HIV/AIDS in Africa 96
4.1.2 HIV/AIDS as an African epidemic 97
4.2 BIOMEDICINE AND HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 98
4.2.1 Colonial medicine 99
4.2.2 Biomedical methods and the HIV epidemic 100
4.2.3 Critical evaluation of the Western biomedical paradigm 103
4.3 BEYOND EPIDEMIOLOGY 104
4.3.1 Social representations of HIV/AIDS 105
4.3.2 Christian religion informing social representations of AIDS 106
4.4 QUALITY OF LIFE 113
4.4.1 Quality of medical life 114
4.4.2 Quality of social life 115
4.4.3 Quality of spiritual life 116
4.5 CONCLUSIONS 118
CHAPTER 5. CHURCH-BASED HEALING DISCOURSE 121
5.1 CHURCH-BASED HEALING DISCOURSE IN GENERAL 122
5.1.1 Typology of churches 122
5.1.2 HIV/AIDS and church-based healing 123
5.1.3 Exorcism: an introduction 124
5.2 ACADEMIC DISCOURSE ON HEALING IN THE BIBLE 126
5.2.1 Old Testament understandings of healing 126
5.2.2 New Testament understandings of healing 128
5.2.3 Biblical roots of healing ministries 129
5.3 HEALING AND DELIVERANCE 132
5.3.1 Rapprochement with African world views 132
5.3.2 Spiritual warfare 135
5.3.3 Power of the Holy Spirit 137
5.3.4 Jesus the great physician 138
5.3.5 Healing rituals 139
5.4 POWER 142
5.4.1 Power as existential need for human life 143
5.4.2 Power as religious parameter 144
5.4.3 Power as an agency of transformation 145
5.5 CONCLUSIONS 148
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