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028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000552 _d: 7/5/2026
082			_a303.37 ZIG
100			_aZigon, Jarrett.
245			_aHIV is God's Blessing _b: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia _c/ Jarrett Zigon.
260			_a, England _b: University of California _c, 2011.
300			_aviii, 258p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2256
520			_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.
650			_aRehabilitating Morality
650			_aNeoliberal Russia
650			_aSocial Condition
700			_aJarrett Zigon.
942			_cBOOK
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