"HIV Is God's Blessing" Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520267640 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 2011 |
DEWEY: | 303.372094709051 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 258 |
Weight: | 374g |
Height: | 225mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |