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HIV Is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
Contributor(s): Zigon, Jarrett (Author)

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 ISBN: 0520267621     ISBN-13: 9780520267626
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE: $99.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Religion | Christianity - General
Dewey: 303.372
LCCN: 2010039368
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.17 lbs) 280 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Topical - AIDS
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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 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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