HIV IS GOD'S BLESSING by Jarrett Zigon ( 9780520267626 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

HIV IS GOD'S BLESSING
REHABILITATING MORALITY IN NEOLIBERAL RUSSIA

By:

Jarrett Zigon

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0520267621

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9780520267626

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

16 December, 2010

Pages:

280

Description:

Examines the role of Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Synopsis:

This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world - 80 per cent from intravenous drug use - and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions - of morality, ethics, what constitutes a 'normal' life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church ultimately opposes.

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