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HIV is God's Blessing - Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (Hardcover, New)
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HIV is God's Blessing - Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (Hardcover, New)
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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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