HIV is God's Blessing(English, Hardcover, Zigon Jarrett)

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HIV is God's Blessing(English, Hardcover, Zigon Jarrett) is written by Zigon Jarrett and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520267621 (ISBN 10) and 9780520267626 (ISBN 13).

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 per cent 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.