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HIV is God's blessing : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia /

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. Jarret...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zigon, Jarrett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 betw.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
ISBN:9780520948327
0520948327