HIV is God's Blessing : Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia Paperback / softback
by Jarrett Zigon
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/12/2010
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- ISBN:9780520267640
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520267640