01623nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800990007608200150017510000200019024500920021026000510030230000250035336500090037852009390038765000280132665000230135465000210137770000190139820260514124155.0260514b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780520267640  a: Brijwasi Book Distributorsb: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhic: BW/000552d: 7/5/2026  a303.37 ZIG  aZigon, Jarrett.  aHIV is God's Blessingb: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russiac/ Jarrett Zigon.  a, Englandb: University of Californiac, 2011.  aviii, 258p.c: 24cm.  b2256  aThis 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.  aRehabilitating Morality  aNeoliberal Russia   aSocial Condition  aJarrett Zigon.