Aids as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America / / Susan J. Palmer.
In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions. The combined forces of medical research and public education have thus far failed to halt the spread of the disease, which remains mysterious, stigmatizing, and fatal. In this highly original study, Susan Palmer explores the healing practic...
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Palmer, Susan J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Aids as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America / Susan J. Palmer. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1997 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: AIDS Metaphors and Body Symbols -- TWO: Christian Compassion or Condemnation? -- THREE: Isolating Utopias -- FOUR: Spiritual Politics and Sadhanas -- FIVE: Race Wars and Ancient Conspiracies -- SIX: Healing Homophobia -- SEVEN: A Virus in the Popular Imagination -- EIGHT: AIDS, Symbols, and Society -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions. The combined forces of medical research and public education have thus far failed to halt the spread of the disease, which remains mysterious, stigmatizing, and fatal. In this highly original study, Susan Palmer explores the healing practices, metaphors, and apocalyptic fantasies of various religious, racial, and sexual minority groups as they respond to the AIDS threat.Palmer looks at the response to AIDS by specific groups as diverse as white and black identity movements, gay spirituality circles, communal and millenarian cults, and sci-fi and horror films. Her study reveals a proliferation of AIDS metaphors that refer variously to medieval plagues, social disorder, decline of the nuclear family, and supernatural powers. She argues that the human body tends to become a symbol that mirrors the social body, and she finds this process especially dramatic in persecuted marginal groups.Well known as a researcher and writer on new religious movements in Europe and North America, Susan Palmer brings experience and insight to this study of the metaphors surrounding alternative spirituality and sexuality. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) AIDS (Disease) Religious aspects. AIDS (Disease) North America. Religious minorities North America Attitudes. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487577773 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487577773 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487577773.jpg |
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