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HIV is God's Blessing

Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia

  • Paperback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 2.1 cm

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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.
HIV is God's Blessing and Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet RussiaHIV is God's Blessing

  • Title

    HIV is God's Blessing

  • Author

    Jarrett Zigon

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Published

    December 2010

  • Weight

    359g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520267640

  • ISBN-10

    0520267648

  • Eden Code

    4024891

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