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HIV is God's blessing : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia / Jarrett Zigon.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zigon, Jarrett.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and social problems--Russia (Federation).
- Church and social problems.
- Social values--Russia (Federation).
- Social values.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--Russia (Federation).
- Drug addicts.
- AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Orthodox Eastern Church.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Prevention--Religious aspects--Orthodox Eastern Church.
- HIV infections.
- Russia (Federation)--Moral conditions.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Orthodox Eastern Church--Russia (Federation).
- Orthodox Eastern Church.
- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 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.
- Contents:
- HIV, drug use, and the politics of indifference
- The Church's rehabilitation program
- The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and injecting drug use
- Moral and ethical assemblages
- Synergeia and simfoniia: orthodox morality, human rights, and the state
- Working on the self
- Enchurchment
- Cultivating a normal life
- Normal sociality: obshchenie and controlling emotions
- Disciplining responsibility: labor and gender.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613291790
- 9781283291798
- 1283291797
- 9780520948327
- 0520948327
- OCLC:
- 756485064
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