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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. Jarret...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zigon, Jarrett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia (Federation)
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ.
Orthodox Eastern Church
Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ
2000-2099
Church and social problems > Russia (Federation)
Social values > Russia (Federation)
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation > Russia (Federation)
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church.
HIV infections > Prevention > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church.
Social values.
Eastern Orthodoxy
HIV Infections > prevention & control
Morals
Social Values
Substance-Related Disorders > rehabilitation
Église et problèmes sociaux > Russie.
Valeurs sociales > Russie.
Toxicomanes > Réadaptation > Russie.
Sida > Aspect religieux > Église orthodoxe.
Infections à VIH > Prévention > Aspect religieux > Église orthodoxe.
Valeurs sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Moral conditions
HIV infections > Prevention > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church
AIDS (Disease) > Religious aspects > Orthodox Eastern Church
Church and social problems
Drug addicts > Rehabilitation
Social conditions
Social values
Russia (Federation) > Moral conditions.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
ISBN:9780520948327
0520948327

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