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HIV is God's blessing : rehabilitating morality in neoliberal Russia / Jarrett Zigon
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011Edition: Online-AusgDescription: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (viii, 258 p.))ISBN:- 1283291797
- 9780520948327
- 9781283291798
- 9780520267626
- Orthodox Eastern Church
- Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
- Church and social problems
- Social values
- Drug addicts
- AIDS (Disease)
- HIV infections
- Social Values -- Russia
- HIV Infections -- Russia
- Substance-Related Disorders -- Russia
- Eastern Orthodoxy -- Russia
- Morals -- Russia
- HIV infections - Prevention - Religious aspects - Orthodox Eastern Church
- Electronic books
- Russia (Federation)
- Russia
- 303.372094709051
- 303.3/72094709051 22
- HN530.2.Z9
- HN530.2.Z9 M6985 2011
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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.Summary: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - Backgrounds -- 1 - HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference -- 2 - The Church's Rehabilitation Program -- 3 - The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use -- 4 - Moral and Ethical Assemblages -- 5 - Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State -- 6 - Working on the Self -- Part II - Practices -- 7 - Enchurchment -- 8 - Cultivating A Normal Life -- 9 - Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions -- 10 - Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender -- Some Closing Words -- Notes -- References.PPN: PPN: 809434830Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-38-EBR | ZDB-30-PAD | ZDB-30-PQE | ZDB-89-EBL
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I BACKGROUNDS; 1. HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference; 2. The Church's Rehabilitation Program; 3. The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use; 4. Moral and Ethical Assemblages; 5. Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State; 6. Working on the Self; PART II PRACTICES; 7. Enchurchment; 8. Cultivating a Normal Life; 9. Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions; 10. Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender; Some Closing Words; Notes; References;
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