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  HIV is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (Paperback) By (author) Jarrett Zigon

  

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  Short Description for HIV is God's BlessingExamines the role of Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Published: 16 December 2010
  • Format: Paperback 280 pages
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  • Categories: HIV / AIDS: Social Aspects | Anthropology | Orthodox & Oriental Churches
  • ISBN 13: 9780520267640 ISBN 10: 0520267648
  • Sales rank: 567,870

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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.