E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
Zigon HIV is God's Blessing
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-94832-7
Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-520-94832-7
Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
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 "e,normal"e, 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.
