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Hiv Is Gods Blessing : Rehabilitating Morality In Neoliberalrussia
Paperback Edition: 1
This provocative study examines the role of todays Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world - 80 percent 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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Publisher : University of California Press
Publication date : 2010-12
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development