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\HIV is God's blessing\
2010,2011
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ AIDS
/ AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church
/ Church and social problems -- Russia (Federation)
/ Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- Russia (Federation)
/ HIV
/ HIV infections - Prevention - Religious aspects - Orthodox Eastern Church
/ HIV Infections -- prevention & control -- Russia
/ Morality
/ Morals
/ Orthodox Eastern Church -- Russia (Federation)
/ Russia
/ Russia (Federation) -- Moral conditions
/ Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
/ Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
ISBN
0520267648, 9780520267640, 9780520267626, 0520267621
